What's the strategy here?
It's looking more and more like Stphen Harper is falling into The Conservative Trap. The Conservative Trap is what happens when conservative parties sense they are closing in on power and they veer left, thinking that by doing so, they might scoop up a few extra centrist voters, thus putting them over the top. The strategy has rarely worked yet it is oft-repeated.
The latest evidence is today's speech by Harper in Toronto in which he called for a government-run prescription drug plan. This is obviously an attempt to stifle Liberal attempts to slime the Conservatives on healthcare, what with their accusations of Harper wanting to make us to whip out our credit cards at the doctors office. But veering left of the Liberals and getting into a fight over who loves socialist healthcare more isn't the best way to do deal with that. It's just to be straight up and tell the truth.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 2:28 PM
