The Liberals are touting their latest campaign-style television spot featuring Dwight Ball talking about accountability and connecting with voters. In the spot, he’s driving somewhere in the driving province and as he talks the thing cuts to shots of him talking to people.
Remember that the latest poll shows that the Liberals own the accountability and leadership issue (48% to the Conservatives’ 13%). This tidy little spot reinforces the Liberal strength and highlights the Conservatives’ weakness.
When you are done watching that, flip over the the Mother Corps’ online archive and watch a 1971 current affairs documentary on the provincial election that year. Your mind will bend about a lot of things, not the least of which is the comment from New Democratic Party leader Jim Walsh.
Yes, friends, that Jim Walsh. He’s out west somewhere now, a long way removed in every way from that 1971 election.
But when your mind gets back on its even keel again, notice the portion of the documentary where Frank Moores is driving along a stretch of newly paved highway talking about the problems of the faltering Smallwood administration. While it’s highly unlikely the producers of the new spot remembered or knew about the old documentary, some would say there is a fitting parallel in there.
Let that be your Freak Friday political thrill for the week.
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