The study was designed to make
conservatives look bad which is also something one expects given the source of the study was a liberal - progressive academia.
Not exact matches
Politicians always follow the «
look busy» rule: when
bad things happen, they have to be seen to be responding, even if there is little likelihood their actions will have any effect. But in this case, Harper was motivated by an additional strategic judgment. Perversely, with his re-election campaign sidetracked by ongoing revelations in the Duffy / Wright case, the Prime Minister actually wants Canadians to worry about the economy.Â
Conservative strategists hope that will undermine voters» willingness to consider an alternative government, playing into the traditional frame that
Conservatives have the strongest economic «credentials.»
Most of the time,
conservatives have to shame these institutions into giving attention to issues that make the left
look bad.
«Yesterday afternoon, senior Lib Dems took to joking about how the Tories might
look in sandals, such is their mystification — but also delight — at the way the
Conservatives are settling into the
bad habits that used to be a Lib Dem hallmark.
Things
look bad for
Conservatives in swing seats.
Indeed, it's
looking increasingly likely that
Conservative MPs were pushed into accepting the coalition deal on the basis of what was, at best, a misunderstanding - and, at
worst, an outright untruth.
Needlessly
conservative storytelling, crap coloring (maybe that's just me and my art snob friends though),
bad comics, rising prices, a lack of speculators, the Hollywood money being exponentially better, companies going for the short gain instead of the long - term gain (I'm
looking at you, Humanoids, and your reprinting of comics classics in strictly deluxe formats that are too expensive for the casual reader who needs that stuff and you, Marvel, who can't even keep a trade of a book that's buzzing super hard in print, and you, comic shops, for banging your doofus drum every time somebody does something in digital comics you don't like), and yes, piracy, have all hurt comics.
When the market has a whole series of strong gains,
conservative value investors end up
looking bad... until they
look prescient and brilliant all over again.
Reminds me of when «
conservatives» argued that anyone critical of Bush's invasion of Iraq wanted all their friends and family to die in terrorist attacks because it would make Bush
look bad.
Make sure that when you're
looking at a deal, you have
conservative numbers and you also have the what - if scenarios on the
bad side, not just the good side.