It breaks my heart to say this, but I agree with Scott Tribe. One of the low points of last night was when Harper accused the opposition leaders of spreading misinformation, urging them to actually read the Conservative platform, despite the fact that he hasn’t actually, you know, released the Conservative platform.
Seriously Harper, where is your f’n platform? The calculation of why you’re doing what you’re doing is pretty transparent (no platform = no scrutiny + dion’s a pantywaste = keys to 24 Sussex), but it’s a snake move and I don’t like it. It angers me, and you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry (actually you might, my hissy fits are adorable). Still, the point is those platforms take a long time to parse through, to check the numbers, to cost out the promises, to scour the fine print for fascist cryptograms. It all takes time. Give us some.
Related and funny: Wells: “He’s hiding!” “Who said that?” “The guy crouching in the flower pot, I guess”
“Buzz off, my agenda is secret.”
Maybe we should cut him a little slack here. After the week he has had, he’s probably terrified that if he released the platform today, within three days the world’s headlines would be about how lines 17-20 of Section 13 (Improving Infrastructure ) were lifted directly from the New Zealand National Party’s platform of 1988.
He’s absolutely terrified. But are leaders terrified that the people will know where they want to lead us? Plus, if memory serves, that 1988 platform was solid – they could do a lot worse, and probably, will.
(Full disclosure, I have no idea what was in the NZ National Party’s 1988 platform)
It is pretty weak not to release an economic platform, but I suppose he’s running his campaign on his track record. Which, clinically speaking, is pretty bad. But when your sole adversary is a man who wants to implement a carbon tax, you really don’t have to try very hard.