Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Liberal Platform Leaked

In case you missed it, the Liberal platform has been leaked. While the Liberals have apparently been quite sloppy keeping it secret, every indication is that this is the work of the elusive Liberal mole.

While there's a certain "what goes around, comes around"ness to all of this, whoever is leaking this stuff has clearly crossed the line. It's one thing to be openly critical of Martin and his regime as a lot of the former Chretien crowd have been. But when you have a job in the war room to help the Liberals win the election, it's just petty and nasty to be sabotaging your own team. Like betting on baseball, this is the sort of thing that just shouldn't be done, no matter how bitter this person(s) is to Martin and his gang.

Hopefully they'll figure out who's behind this so that we don't have to worry about this person working on future election campaigns (ditto for Herle, Reid, and Duffy).

posted by calgarygrit at 12:24 p.m.

11 Comments:

  • ONE WORD: KARMA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:42 p.m.  

  • It wasn't a mole. Versions of the platform were left unprotected on the Liberal internet server and were available to anyone interesting in looking. I don't have the link anymore (its floating around the blogsphere) but I think it still there.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:47 p.m.  

  • Hmmm... don't see any mention of the NWC, nor Western Alienation... I guess Scott Reid really is doing this campaign on the fly.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:02 p.m.  

  • CG: what makes you think it isn't one of Duffy, Herle or Reid? ;-)

    By Blogger Ted Betts, at 1:44 p.m.  

  • Mole, eh? Could her initials be BS.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:51 p.m.  

  • You don't need a mole when the entire www.liberal.ca website is open to webcrawlers.

    Google is the mole.

    By Blogger Michael, at 3:33 p.m.  

  • What we need, actually, is every single person working on this campaign or connected to Paul Martin to never, ever work on anything related to Canadian politics ever again.

    I hear the US Democratic party is hiring.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:38 p.m.  

  • Calgary Grit, I could not agree with you more - great column!

    By Blogger John Murney , at 4:24 p.m.  

  • Considering that today is January 11th, there really hasn't been much the Liberals have been doing in this campaign that's policy-based, and the party is in a free-fall, why did it take a "leak" to get the Red Book out there? Why wasn't it out there two weeks after the campaign started, or right after the Christmas break?
    There are less than two weeks left in this campaign, and if the Red Book didn't get leaked, you really have to wonder when they were planning on releasing it. Of course, this also gives credence to the view that the Liberals didn't even have the "goddamned thing" drafted until the past few days.

    By Blogger RGM, at 4:48 p.m.  

  • "it's just petty and nasty to be sabotaging your own team."

    Ummmm, would that be like running attacks ads that are total fabrications?

    Horny Toad

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:54 p.m.  

  • I have a feeling that none of these clowns are going to be getting a lot of work in politics after this election.

    Except the advertising agency that created those awful ads, of course. We all know that McGuinty will keep the cash flowing to them.

    By Blogger Michael Fox, at 6:58 p.m.  

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