Courtesy of SST, we find this little article from the UK Telegraph reminding us that ideas trump style every time:
But here’s my point: right now the polls in Her Majesty’s snowbound dominion show the Conservatives are ahead and poised to topple the incumbent Liberals on January 23. And what’s the name of the glamorous metrosexual matinee idol who has brought the Canadian Tories to the brink of electoral triumph?
Well, he’s a guy called Stephen Harper and he’s widely agreed by all the experts to have ‘negative charisma’. Think how you felt about my opening sentence and then multiply it a thousandfold. Mr Harper is unexciting even by Canadian standards! He’s unflashy, unflamboyant, unshowy, unspectacular, unmodish, uncool – except in the sense that the Yukon in January is cool. He is, in other words, the anti-Cameron. And he’s on course to win.
Canadian liberals have resorted to that nefarious of all extra=Amercian Kool-Aid: that of blaming the United States for all the world’s problems. Canadian voters will punish the liberals accordingly, just as Americans punished the Democratic left in 2004.
What’s more, this offers a lesson for us state and local politicos as well. Ideas – good ideas – first and foremost.