Hard News: God's squads
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Who was it that said the difference between a liberal and a conservative is having a daughter ?
Somebody who was wrong.
Agreed, but what a tremendous line.
I guess it depends whose daughter it is.
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I really almost wish that candidates still did the doorknocking thing
Nikki Kaye's been round our way, no sign of Judith Tizard, or anyone else for that matter.
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julie f said
the kind of thing that a year ago Whaleoil would have done and Farrar would have linked to, but he wouldn't have done it directly himself. As in 2005 he seems to have been infected by the campaign again. I wonder what will happen with Kiwiblog next year, whether National wins or not.
wondered exactly the same myself.
i had noted that dpf has slipped into election mode. it's probably the proximity of mr slater to his person while they travel together.
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Respect to David for fronting up here tho.
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I guess it depends whose daughter it is.
It'd better not be mine. But, irrespective of daughters... what a tremendous, evil line.
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I really almost wish that candidates still did the doorknocking thing
Well, I sure wish Phil Twyford would -- I've met him a couple of times, and he's a perfectly decent and personable chap. A damn sight more appealing than his faux-personal computer generated snail-spam.
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Herne Bay gentry and Westmere breeders aside...Auckland Central also includes a lot of young, flatting, first or second time voters, who haven't been adults under a National government and so seem more open to the idea that National can actually deliver "a brighter future'.
They obviously need to be introduced to Nick Smith and Tony Ryall.
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I haven't seen a single candidate here at the door in Dunedin North - the closest I've come to one was when I was almost run over by the National candidate who cut me off in traffic the other day (looked just like the giant face he had plastered on his car)
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I accept the police have a duty to proactively maintain security -- but having your details taken by a plainclothes policeman because you asked the candidate a question is just creepy.
So is The Standard alleging National MPs try to run protesters down with their cars. Only four more sleeps to go, and then the troll bloggers might fuck off back under their bridges for a bit.
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They obviously need to be introduced to Nick Smith and Tony Ryall.
Perhaps they also need to be introduced to Phil Goff, and reminded what the presumptive next leader of the Labour Party did when he was Minister of Education. Since you went there...
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I haven't seen a single candidate here at the door in Dunedin North
Me neither in Dunedin South,Paul. I did nearly run over some Labour people hanging around the Oval where the motorway ends...
And I wouldn't recognise Claire Curren to run over.
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Only four more sleeps to go, and then the troll bloggers might fuck off back under their bridges for a bit.
Though having said that, I expect the bog-o-sphere to be alive with the sound of exploding blood vessels and unmentionable human waste products and bodily fluids hitting fans for weeks to come post-election, no matter what the results.
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no - I don't think he did it on purpose - he just wasn't paying attention (I'm waiting for a tirade blaming Labour for the new rules for roundabouts)
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Could it simply be that Labour and National have rightly cottoned on to the fact that electorates just don't matter squat to them?
I suspect they think they're quite important. Manning's article was interesting in how he linked an active and good electorate MP to bringing out a strong vote next time in both electorate and party vote.
Taking an electorate off a party gives you a base, funds to build up a profile in your area, and pays you to do work which helps come next election.
MMP, definitely not the death of electoral politics.
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John Campbell nailed Key last night about the lack of "fresh" anything on his front bench. Interestingly, his response suggested that the rankings may not count for much after the election..
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__I accept the police have a duty to proactively maintain security -- but having your details taken by a plainclothes policeman because you asked the candidate a question is just creepy.__
So is The Standard alleging National MPs try to run protesters down with their cars.
I'm struggling to even see a comparison between the two, to be honest.
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John Campbell nailed Key last night about the lack of "fresh" anything on his front bench. Interestingly, his response suggested that the rankings may not count for much after the election.
I hear this too. Watch out for Broadcasting and Communications.
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Putting aside daughters, what about Winston Churchill's quote:
“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
Is that more palatable?
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Respect to David for fronting up here tho.
I'd pop over to Kiwiblog more often, but being reminded that I am a filthy, lying socialist lickspittle gets old quite quickly :-)
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__“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”__
Is that more palatable?
He was plagiarising GB Shaw and aside from that I'd say it's just as unapalatable and not nearly as insidiuosly clever.
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What’s a lickspittle?
BTW, I don’t think the venom around the blogosphere will die down until after the next election in May 09.
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I'm struggling to even see a comparison between the two, to be honest.
Just that The Standard is a source any prudent person should treat with extreme caution.
John Campbell nailed Key last night about the lack of "fresh" anything on his front bench.
But while Campbell (tiried) to nail Clark on her own 'flip-flops', I do wish someone would remind Helen Clark that her own front-bench is strongly resembling an 80's retro party.
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My partner is running an electorate campaign for a very safe incumbent (Mr Goff, seeing as how you asked, well ok I'm sure you were going to ;-) ) and they have been door knocking for months.
I understand this has been going on for Labour activists in most of Auckland, for electorate campaigns, but I suspect the ability to cover the whole electorate is highly limited for all candidates these days, due to the sheer number of doors and the sheer lack of activists willing to do the knocking.
I'm not sure what the general thinking is about how to identify the areas to knock. Certainly in Mt Roskill the main push I've perceived from the Labour campaign has been in heartland areas - at first focused on enrolment (huge section of the Labour core voters in the electorate have shifted house since 2005) and more recently on getting out the vote. They're not door-knocking the strong National areas, although they are doing other things electorate-wide that would cover those spots.
So what I'm getting at is that I'm not surprised many people haven't seen anyone door knocking, or think it isn't happening. It is. You're just not the target audience.
And on Farrar fronting up here about his video post - it's all very well for him to come over here and mea culpa, but I don't see him doing it at his own blog, where no one will pat him on the head for it like he's getting here.
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Watch out for Broadcasting and Communications.
Oooh - who, who?
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Who was it that said the difference between a liberal and a conservative is having a daughter ?
Aha thaaaat explains a lot ...
having your details taken by a plainclothes policeman because you asked the candidate a question is just creepy.
Can someone clarify The Law on this? I thought we weren't obliged to give our name unless we were arrested? I would have declined politely and walked away. Would I have then been arrested?
And I loved the bit when he (the Cop) explained he just wanted his name (the questioner's) so he could run it through the computer in his car and see if he'd ever been in trouble with the Police before. FTP!
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