The Tories risk all on narrow appeal and wedge issues

[CHIMO]

Rosalynn Carter, wife of Jimmy, the peanut farmer, once made an interesting observation about the reason for Ronald Reagan’s success. “He makes Americans feel comfortable with their prejudices,” she said.

That’s political gold for a leader. It’s especially true if, as in the case of the Gipper, it’s accompanied with an aw-shucks, big Hollywood smile.

Watching our Conservatives, you get the feeling – although they have a leader who lacks that president's big-sky appeal – that they are trying to touch on the population’s biases in a similar way.

Nowadays, even more than before, they’re into small-tent politics, the kind of thing that makes base supporters comfortable. That base is barely a third of the electorate, but owing to fractionalization on the left, a vote haul of this range is good enough to win.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-tories-risk-all-on-narrow-appeal-and-wedge-issues/article1574615/

[BolivarianHero]

1. And some idiot Liberals here still oppose electoral reform...

So selfish that you' want to hand over the country to Christian fundamentalists. I bet I can see you in Southern Baptist churches every Sunday.

[CHIMO]

2. And

Perhaps you would be so kind to list the electoral reform that you are looking towards?

What party is proposing that system at the present?

Thank you for your participation.

[BolivarianHero]

3. Mixed member proportional represenation...

The NDP and Green Party both favour...Of course, your solution to the fact that the Conservatives are winning is that the plurality of Canadians favouring socialist and ecologist parties to the left of the Liberal Party sell their souls to you thugs.

Your worthless party is in 3rd, the 3 parties to your left combine for 1st, and you guys are so pathetic that even the Tories are in 2nd.