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Originally Posted by Charlatan
He got it out there... points for not hiding things. But, this will let everyone else paint him with the anti-Gay brush and the anti-Charter of Rights and Freedoms brush (ie social conservative).
The whole free vote thing is a bit of a bugaboo.
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Whther you like or dislike Harper I am sure that a good portion of the people working for him are at least smart (you can assume that of any of the party leaders).
So their logic is probably the following:
- We can't hide from these issues, if we don't bring it up, the other parties will. Let's not be defensive about it, let's go on the offense.
- In either case we either tell the truth about what we think or lie.
- If we have decided that we are not going to lie, then the best option is for these issues to at least be under our control.
Hence: Bring it up first under circumstances of our choosing instead of reating to an accusation.