[poquas]

Mustang1 Mustang1:

All voters judge a leader, reputation and all. And for the platform, why give the other parties any talking points BEFORE an election?

Especially when you can be guaranteed that ANY point will be turned into a personal attack ad.

[Gunnair]

Thanos Thanos:

Good point. I think that Ghaw'ron became Chancellor of the Klingon Empire precisely because no one knew anything about him and too much about the other candidates.

Note to politicians: don't reveal yourself until Ground Hog Day and no one'll get too pissed off at ya.

[ridenrain]

Better Canadians vote for a color or brand than ideas or policy.
After all, it was hammered into us that Canadians vote for MPs and not Prime Ministers.

[Lemmy]

OF COURSE Iggy's arrogant. Other arrogant leaders: Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Pierre Trudeau, John A. Macdonald, John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Those guys seemed to do a pretty good job. I want an arrogant leader. Someone with some balls to make reforms and stand behind them.

[ridenrain]

Dion was arogant too.
It would still be a good thing to tell people what you believe in rather than making them guess.

[Akhenaten]

Lemmy Lemmy:

OF COURSE Iggy's arrogant. Other arrogant leaders: Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Pierre Trudeau, John A. Macdonald, John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Those guys seemed to do a pretty good job. I want an arrogant leader. Someone with some balls to make reforms and stand behind them.

How come everyone in your list is a 'good' leader (for sake of argument)? Is that list the sum total of arrogant leaders? Why not include Mussolini? Napoleon? It's not as solid a point when your list of "arrogant leaders" is more complete.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Yeah but there are different kinds of arrogance. Iggy is intellectually arrogant. But that doens't mean he'd have the cajones to actually make GOOD FOR CANADA reforms and stand behind them.
I could be totally misreading him but I'm thinking he's only got one goal, and that goal ONLY includes his own self-interest. Just like any other candidate, sucking in the rarefied air at the top.

[Lemmy]

Akhenaten Akhenaten:

Lemmy Lemmy:

OF COURSE Iggy's arrogant. Other arrogant leaders: Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Pierre Trudeau, John A. Macdonald, John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Those guys seemed to do a pretty good job. I want an arrogant leader. Someone with some balls to make reforms and stand behind them.

How come everyone in your list is a 'good' leader (for sake of argument)? Is that list the sum total of arrogant leaders? Why not include Mussolini? Napoleon? It's not as solid a point when your list of "arrogant leaders" is more complete.

Maybe so. I don't care if we have an arrogant leader, so long as he's competent. I'll take arrogant and able over humble and horrible.

[ridenrain]

.. and the trains ran on time!

As usual, we desperately need some charismatic leader to warp all our laws to create paradise on earth.

[Lemmy]

"Arrogant and Able"...that's the tag-line that'll win the next election. Whichever party adopts that phrase will CAKE-WALK to a majority.

[ridenrain]

Try the Bloc. They seem to have that line sewn up.

[putz]

Lemmy Lemmy:

Akhenaten Akhenaten:

Lemmy Lemmy:

OF COURSE Iggy's arrogant. Other arrogant leaders: Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Pierre Trudeau, John A. Macdonald, John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Those guys seemed to do a pretty good job. I want an arrogant leader. Someone with some balls to make reforms and stand behind them.

How come everyone in your list is a 'good' leader (for sake of argument)? Is that list the sum total of arrogant leaders? Why not include Mussolini? Napoleon? It's not as solid a point when your list of "arrogant leaders" is more complete.

Maybe so. I don't care if we have an arrogant leader, so long as he's competent. I'll take arrogant and able over humble and horrible.

Well if you have to take the good with the bad: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, do you want me to list more?

[DerbyX]

You missed Harper and Mulroney.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

[putz]

DerbyX DerbyX:

You missed Harper and Mulroney.

Sorry I also forgot: Jean Chrétien, Jack Layton, Gilles Duceppe