Thursday, September 11, 2008

Why Harper Is Winning

He may have the charm of a halibut and the warmth of an iceberg but incredibly Stephen Harper is the most media friendly of the main candidates. Sure the NDP have embraced new media better than any other of the other parties, and it is doing them some good in the numbers, but they can't get away from the fact that Jack Layton looks like the uncle at a party who's going to tell you a string of boring stories about his army days. Similarly the Liberals can't get away from the fact that Stephane Dion looks like he would be much happier discussing existential philosophy than hard economics.

So that leaves us with Harper. At worst he comes across as a boring middle manager who never quite made it to the top of the tree. At best he comes across as......well, a boring middle manager who never quite made it to the top of the tree. But at least it's management right?

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