Branding: Liberals D.O.A. Coalition To Nowhere

The latest Angus Poll confirms an observation of mine, Jack Layton should take over the Liberal Party of Toronto-Montreal. Here is the Poll. The Liberal Party is dead on arrival regardless of what leader is the caretaker.

Suppose the Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party (NDP) merged and had Jack Layton as leader. If a federal election were held tomorrow, which one of the following parties would you be most likely to support in your constituency?

I don't believe Canadians are out of step with the world,  North American socialism from Toronto- Montreal is in the decline. Trudeau was rejected by the West and Quebec a long time ago. The NDP kept the Liberals alive through Lewis, Broadbent from the 70-80's. Layton has done his part by invoking 'making parliament work' when his party was unprepared to face the voters.

Same question but this time with the media darling Bob Rae:

Lastly the reality of Michael Ignatieff. A failed candidate to Dion in 2006. Appointed by insiders in 2008 after a crushing defeat and a failed coup by three stooges.

It is too bad they did not ask about the young dauphin in-waiting with the good hair. The search for the next leader to fix their problems is delaying the acceptance of hard facts and truths about a party that has lost touch with most Canadians.

The Liberal Brand is damaged beyond repair. In Quebec, Ontario and BC the provincial cousins are doing their best to destroy it as well.

• Increase in Taxes for redistribution to unions, benefits, salaries and pensions
• Bigger Government, more jobs in government
• Deficits

The Liberals have lost speaking on behalf of a united Canada, a stronger Canada for a long time. They have been busy trying to destroy our democracy by calling on the separatists, socialists to unite and protect their entitlements.

On every issue of importance they have flubbed it.

They tried to turn H1N1 into a financial windfall for their own party. The President of the Liberal Party kept his job.

They offended Catholics by suggesting our Prime Minister behaved incorrectly at a State Funeral.

They pushed our government was racist narrative at every opportunity.

They lied about the threat to our democracy over a delay of twenty-eight days of re-opening parliament during the Olympics. The leader immediately embarks on his University Tour as the doors are opened.

They ignored the testimony of Generals, Ambassadors, and experts to push our military and government were involved in a cover up of torture and war crimes.

Instead of uniting behind our Prime Minister demanding more accountability of the G8 on Maternal Health, they raised the abortion issue to distract and divide Canadians.

They attacked, hounded a female MP in Question Period for nearly two months for an incident that never took place at an Airport. The Liberal MP that read the letter has NOT resigned or explained how the unidentified author made up the details has not been made public. After a resignation took place they blamed the PM for not sharing the details why she was removed.

They have attacked the Ontario judicial system suggesting a sweetheart deal was offered but ignore when their own are embroiled in the same controversy.

The Democrats, Separatists have not distanced themselves from the actions and allegations raised by the Liberals.

The socialists and separatists have in fact added controversy to the distrust of our military and our institutions.

The opposition is united in weakening this country and our capacity to achieve great things.

• Protection of entitlements of large unions is their priority
• Corporate-Union Welfare is being demanded by opposition parties.
• Accountability is being ignored and returning to balanced budgets.

Restricting the spending and size of government is being framed as an ideological attack of right wing extremists invoking religious intolerance of Christians and bigotry is now common practice by the opposition.

Enough is enough. Greece is not the economic role model for Canada.

Trudeau vs. Obama

Pierre Trudeau’s greatest achievements—bilingualism, multiculturalism and the Charter—aimed in large part at redressing imagined grievances, that is, harm done, not to us, but to others with whom we identify. Because people claiming such grievances can never truly be appeased, it may have been a mistake to try. It has certainly encouraged the syndrome, which is now pervasive. Richard Nielson

A comparison in growing up and experiences may shed some light into what is store for the Americans in  The Hope & Change movement that help bring him to power.

Both men are viewed as highly intelligent and lost their fathers at a very young age. Pierre lost his father in his teens. Barack in his childhood. Did this have an influence in shaping them? What were the other male role models around them.

Trudeau grew in a wealthy family unlike Obama.

Both men excelled in education, attended Harvard and passed their bar exams. Both of them had very little experience in the political class before entering public life.

A law professor at the University of Montreal, he had been a critic of the Liberal Party for fifteen years before deciding to join them and run for a seat in Parliament in the upcoming national elections. He won a seat in the riding of Town of Mount Royal on his first attempt.

Both men represented a change from the past of old traditional politics to large swaths of the voters. A sense of change and hope for a better fairer society.

The Liberals held a leadership convention in 1968 to replace the Prime Minister Lester Pearson and give the new leader adequate time before an election.

Both men were famous for keeping their cool.

Before his first term as Prime Minister, Trudeau has worked as a lawyer and law professor and had only three years of experience in public office

Some criticism against Obama was his lack of executive experience, but he did have more than three years in public office before winning the democratic contest and becoming the President of the United States.

Obama spent a great deal of time traveling across the United States in sharing his plan, his vision for the leadership and candidate for the Democrats. The favourite was Hilary Clinton and Obama was considered a long shot.

Both men garnered attention, locally, nationally, international stage through "Charisma" and a fawning press before their attainment of their final prize.

Trudeau mania that swept him into the leadership in 1968. The first election in  1972 may have not been enough to keep the Liberal PM, but  David Lewis, leader of the NDP made an offer Trudeau could not refuse a coalition to sustain his power. The Liberals barely won in 1972.The NDP propped up Pierre Trudeau's Liberal government in exchange for the implementation of NDP proposals such as the creation of Petro-Canada as a crown corporation. In 1974 David Lewis was rewarded with a loss of half his seats including his own on a swing of 2.40%.

Politics is about winning and holding onto power. The Liberals did a deal with David Lewis to hold power.

In the l972 federal election, Pierre Trudeau's Liberals won l09 seats to 107 for Robert Stanfield's Conservatives and needed the support of the NDP to stay in power. David Lewis of the NDP, in exchange for an NDP shopping list, agreed to support the Liberals without entering into a coalition. Trudeau yielded to stay in power.

There is plenty to criticize about the record of Pierre Trudeau but one thing that will stand to his credit for all time was his view that under no circumstances would he make deals with the separatist devil.- David Asper

It is too early to judge how history will measure Obama.

The spending priorities during the Trudeau years, the nationalization and foreign policy did create some serious problems. Socialism has retreated and is considered a failed economic theory.

China and India are adopting entrepreneur-capitalism to lift their poor. On May 25, 2010 Charles Schram appeared on Charlie Rose here.

Economic growth is critical to establishing social stability, which is the ultimate objective of these counterinsurgency campaigns and disaster-relief efforts. Various obstacles, such as insurgencies and inadequacies in infrastructure, have made economic development difficult in these countries, of course, but these difficulties cannot be blamed exclusively on such obstacles. A central element in the failure to establish robust economies in war-torn or disaster-stricken countries is the prevailing doctrine of international development, according to which strong economies cannot emerge in poor countries. -Expeditionary Economics

Some in the U.S. are suggesting the economic priorities of the Obama administration, Democratic controlled Senate, Congress are too Liberal, too vague in specifics to help solve the problems.