Monday, September 08, 2008

That Liberal Plane

Presumably, the Liberal campaign has been scripted for some time now. If the plan did not require a plane until day four, why would the party waste money renting a plane longer than we need to?

Cherniak is basically correct on this one, although I don't know whether the decision to not rent a plane until Wednesday followed the script, or the script followed an inability to get the plane. In any case, the ridings being visited are not all safe seats by a long shot, and any time that Dion spends is Quebec, at this point, is well spent. The press kerfuffle is just a matter of the Conservative attack machine scoring a point on some gullible reporters and my only concern is: where is the Liberal Party list of Tory "gotcha" moments, real or perceived? Are they supposed to be above this kind of thing?

3 comments:

penlan said...

The plane deal is much ado about nothing. But of course the Cons will grab ahold of it to make Dion & the Libs look "disorganized". As Cherniak said, why waste money on something until you need it.

Ti-Guy said...

Remember, the press is chock-a-block with boys who have the same emotional maturity as your average blog troll.

This campaign is going to be a litany of...*shriek*..."gaffes" like this.

Auntie Liberal said...

A plane? Dion - Mr. Green - is telling us to conserve fuel and reduce our carbon footprint by flying around in a 30+ year-old airplane? You're joking, right?