AllThePincersThatFit
SchlieffenThis!Ville
At first glance the numbers look to be all good for the BC-NDP according the fine folks at Forum Research and Postmedia News:
…Of the 988 randomly selected British Columbians contacted for the Forum Research poll, 39% of decided voters said they would vote for the NDP, compared to the 26% who said Liberal and the 22% who said Conservative.
That’s a 5% increase for the NDP compared to another Forum Research poll in December. In that poll, 23% of respondents said they would vote Liberal; 23% said they would vote for the Tories….
Which, of means that the Fight against the HST has done its real job and split the Right for reals.
Right?
I sure hope so.
But….
Then I remembered that Mr. Lipstick was here a couple of weeks ago.
And while he may have avoided her publicly, the man with the bright red lips did not trash Premier Snooki before the two (allegedly) commenced sucking back Timmy’s in semi-secret, arm-in-arm for an hour or two.
Furthermore, while The Curmudgeon is still floating, if no longer going ‘Up’, there has been no direct, overt move by he or his to go for broke with the Cons now patented strategy driven by the ‘Politics of Total Destruction.’
So, with that preface cast your eyes upward and ask yourself the following….
Are the aggregate numbers really better for the Dippers now than they were in May of 2009?
The answer is no.
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So, given all that….
What if the Cons were to suddenly, depose the Snook, anoint the Birdman, and then engineer a fusion-based love-in with The Curmudgeon.
How would those numbers look then?
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Because my memory is starting to fail me, I had to look up Schlieffen Plan to make sure I had the ‘pincer’ reference right…And the really scary thing that the Interwebs can do to you sometimes?….Well, look what popped up as the ‘fourth’ authority…..Sheesh.
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