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Date Posted: 19:47:17 11/07/03 Fri
Author: Malcolm
Subject: Re: Do you see the whole picture now, young grasshopper?
In reply to: 20yr_old_rightwing 's message, "Re: Do you see the whole picture now, young grasshopper?" on 11:05:08 11/07/03 Fri

Now you merely become repetative, young grasshopper.

I am curious. You attack me over some set of assumptions about what I believe. But virtually all I have spoken about on this list are strategies, tactics and political projections.

Well, you and I were both wrong on our projections -- though I am happier than you in my error.

But you have never made an honest or inteligent response to my observations about strategy and tactics. All you have done is grandstanded and spewed vitriol.

Is it because you concede that my analysis of the SaskParty's failed campaign strategy is correct? viz:

- that it was a mistake to build the entire election campaign around a leader with high negatives;
- that it was a mistake to minimize some of the stronger names in the SaskParty team;
- that it was a mistake to fall into the trap of keeping the election focussed on the issue the other party had chosen;
- that it was mistake to run a poorly designed ad which started by reiterating the other party's message;
- that it was a mistake to have the leader be the most aggressive in the leadership debate rather than attempting to appear "like a premier."

Another rightwinger on this list, Redman, has been quite prepared to concede that the SaskParty blew an almost sure thing by running such a misguided campaign.

Today, I had lunch with an aquaintance well placed in the SaskParty who tells me that there were many senior SaskParty strategists who were pointing out essentially the same strategic and tactical problems I have described, and who knew that the overarching strategy Reg Downs implemented could well cost them an election which they had had in the bag.

Take a look at Murray Mandryk's column from the day after the election -- the one about how the SaskParty "blew it."

Hate my party if you will, young grasshopper. Hate me if you must. But none of that will change the fact that it was Reg Downs that lost you this election. Not me. Not Lorne Calvert. Not Dale Schmeichel. Not even Elwin Hermanson.

And no amount of angry venom will change that.

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Re: Do you see the whole picture now, young grasshopper? -- 20yr_old_rightwing, 23:07:50 11/07/03 Fri
- Re: Do you see the whole picture now, young grasshopper? -- Malcolm, 22:10:25 11/08/03 Sat