Snappy comments help get news coverage.
Some people call them sound bites.
Like this one from the leader’s debate, highlighted by CBC:
She did, however, have a feisty comment for Aylward when he challenged her on the PCs' approach to the fishery.
"Your slogan is 'we can do better,' you can hardly do worse sir," said Dunderdale.
She’s right.
The Liberals would be hard-pressed to do worse than the Tories when it came to managing the province’s fishery.
From the FPI fiasco to the idea of re-starting the Fisheries Give-Away Public Cash Board to keeping people splitting fish for Third World wages, you’d be hard pressed to do worse than the Tories have done.
That’s not what Dunderdale likely meant but it was the hapless politician said.
It’s typical of the sorts of basic cock-ups she makes a lot.
But in politics you only have to be better than the alternatives and in the debate she looked better.
The Liberals and NDP can hardly do worse than that, either.
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