NDP reaction

[_social_retard_]

You know i signed up for the offical news letter from the NDP. I dunno if id consider myself a NDPer but i did vote for them last time around. Inanycase i didn't like what i got in my inbox just now. Thuoght id share it with you

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[twio]

Jack Layton was more than happy enough to shower praise on Dion at the NDP Federal Convention. I bet he feels stupid about that now.

Maybe this will finally wake Jack up and he'll stop pretending to be a Liberal.

[uncut_diamond]

That's all the class I expect from the NDP.

Very Republican sounding sound bites. Reminds me of what they said when Kerry picked Edwards to be his running mate. Wouldn't surprise me if that was the inspiration.

[twio]

Well it is the working CLASS party...

[uncut_diamond]

I guess we have a pretty small working class in Canada, eh?

[twio]

Well one that identifies as such, yes.

[dubhagan]

Yeah, well, Bob Rae sums it up best in his latest book: "At its core, the NDP, both in Ontario and federally, has been more committed to protest than to seeing the country achieve a balanced, progressive, effective government."

What else would one expect from the NDP?

[pakaboori]

Strong McKenna quote there. True, too.

[warrioreowyn]

Pretty much anyone is a better information source on Dion than the NDP or Conservatives will be; that's how politics works. The NDP will have difficulty with Dion; Iggy would have been a gift to them. Rae - it's amusing to think of how they would have dealt with Rae, given that he was once one of them.

[zeronobus]

The NDP will have difficulty with Dion

Considering what they put in their press release... yeah, it would appear so.

Dion was supported by “Harper Liberals” Bryon Wilfret and Charles Hubbard who voted against extending marriage equality under the Charter and Paul Steckle who has “Simply put, I oppose abortion.”

Oh, well that *must* mean he's a raving neocon. Heaven forbid people with varying viewpoints support him.
p.s. Dear NDP: have somebody proofread your idiotic press releases. You might be missing a word there.

"This is how the problem should be put: 'Are we too decentralized?' I do not think so. Can the decentralization process be improved? I think so."
- Stephane Dion, Hansard, 17 June 1996

I don't even see how that's a negative quote, but they're obviously trying to portray it as one. They're probably hoping people will read it in the current context of Stephen Harper's decentralization process instead of taking note that the date is 1996.

[warrioreowyn]

Oh, well that *must* mean he's a raving neocon. Heaven forbid people with varying viewpoints support him.
p.s. Dear NDP: have somebody proofread your idiotic press releases. You might be missing a word there.
Yeah, that sounded rather idiotic. "Out of several hundred supporters, two of them oppose gay marriage! Oh noes!"

And the NDP don't seem to think that any diversity of opinion exists within their party. I oppose abortion.

[zeronobus]

Have the NDP allowed a free vote on any issue in the last two parliaments?