What I find interesting is that the Conservatives are implicitly boosting Trudeau's image, promoting him as a person whose opinions are worth listening to. It's not what they intend, but it is a by-product of the ad.
“Ignatieff, he’s a little all over the place sometimes,” Trudeau says in the spot, in a clip drawn from a 2006 TV interview.
“He says this, he says that — he contradicts himself.”
Trudeau then delivers this little parting shot: “For me, he’s not someone with... maybe he has the intelligence, but maybe not the wisdom required.”
At the time, the young Trudeau and candidate Ignatieff had crossed swords over whether Quebec should be recognized as a nation — something Ignatieff supported.
The ad’s narrator ends the spot by asking viewers: “Liberals themselves doubt (Ignatieff’s) judgment. How can we trust him?”
Ignatieff :“As compared to Mr. Harper, I can work very well with people who have opinions that differ from mine... Justin Trudeau is a man with a remarkable future in the party and I’m proud that he’s part of my team and that’s all I have to say.”
Trudeau's response: "If I accused him of lacking wisdom, when I look at those words today and all the trouble they could cause even three years later, taken out of context . . . I am prepared to admit that maybe I'm the one who lacked wisdom."
Not that these quotes will counter the ad, as they get far less exposure. But I suggest this ad will have little effect in of itself. People expect politicans to bicker amongst themselves. As there is nothing inherently scandalous about the content, there will be little to no effect.
Will this build into some sort of sucessful theme? We'll see.
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What we need is someone to dig up the quotes and clips of Clement calling Harper on his wallbuilding and uncooperative manner during the Alliance leadership race. Now that would be another nail in mr harpocrisy's box.
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