Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Wells nails it
Every so often, Paul Wells succinctly nails the essence of an issue, as he does here. As someone interested in strategy, there could be no more apt description than "crack-smoking moron" to describe the hijinx coming out of the Liberal Leader's office. The question is, how will said Principal Secretary respond to that wake-up call?
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I read Wells' posting, but am left wondering what tangible evidence has that someone from the office called the Globe and revealed "every single element" of anything?
Mark,
I believe that the Globe story is symptomatic of the drift that we've been seeing from OLO, with tactics leaked to the media in the place of strategy. The original Globe piece as well as the Bryant stuff show me that too much information is being too widely circulated and that a tighter grasp on the reins needs to be taken. The alternative is that people in OLO are freelancing or speculating which is fine, except when you are quoted as representing the leader's office.
Finally, I don't know that there is a grand strategy, but I hope that there is. I don't think too many people will disagree that the Leader needs to take the initiative, rather than being in a defensive/reactive posture.
The Bryant stuff likely comes by way of Kingston, not Ottawa. Remember, the Bryant report was subimtted as part of the Red Ribbon committee, which means it went to Tom Axworthy, which means every newspaper in the country had it five minutes later...
I doubt this is an Ottawa source. Ottawa sources would have more juicy stuff than a stale Bryant report.
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