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I Predicted 3 Yrs Ago Megan Leslie Would Be Defeated
October 22, 2015 - 9:15am
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So why didn't anyone believe me?
http://rabble.ca/babble/election-2015/liberal-mpp-laurel-broten-to-take-...
Andy Fillmore (who beat her) fits into the Libs narrative of an 'urban agenda' that is part of their election platform for cities across Canada. Him being an urban/city planning activist, he has been influential voice in the Halifax's urban-planning discussions for several years.
So it is not like he is a no-name to the residents of Halifax. He is well-known and is considered a star candidate, in Halifax.
It was a huge Liberal wave that cbeat Megan Leslie. Washing away everything in Atlantic Canada is what it took to carry Andy Fillmore.
Your statements 3 years ago are the same baseless wishes now that they were 3 years ago.
Like the saying goes, monkeys banging om keyboards long enough will eventually produce something recognizable.
You got your wish against the odds. Congratulations.
As of Monday Andy Fillmore is not the nobody he was.
Like I said in politics anything can happen.
Wow. You're a regular Kreskin.
Fantastic! Supernatural!!
But don't sell yourself short - some of your recent predictions are just as psychic:
Contrary to Yogi, in this case, it was apparently over before it was over.
To expand on what Ken said, and quoting Bob Newhart, "to be or not to be, that is the gozornunplast!"
Want a bannanna Terrytowel?
Yes, Terry Towel, you were correct, but the circumstances under which Megan Leslie lost were different than the ones you originally envisaged.
Atlantic Canada giving the Liberals all 32 seats was because of Harper becoming so toxic that the region decided they needed to plunge a dagger into the Harper Vampire.
Other than Montréal, Atlantic Canada was the only place in Canada where Harper was so hated. He succeeded in wiping out even the Conservative strongholds in Fundy-Royal (goodbye to homophobe Rob Moore) as well as New Brunswick Southwest and Tobique-Mactaquac. Harper really outdid himself.
He ended up taking down not only the last remaining Conservative MP's in the East, but the NDP MP's as well.
Well I told people that the Liberals were polling at 50%! But everyone dismissed that saying Megan Leslie was safe,
http://rabble.ca/babble/election-2015/liberal-mpp-laurel-broten-to-take-...
Terrytowel, I'm sure you are enjoying gloating over the defeat of someone you hate as much as Megan Leslie...
You also predicted that the hated Laurel Broten would run for the liberals after she had been run out of Toronto by a posse of teachers with pitchforks, what happened to that prediction?
Someday maybe you can explain why you suffer from "NDP derangement syndrome' and seem to have such a pathological hatred for anyone who belongs to the NDP. What happened, was your mother an NDP supporter and she didnt love you?
I predicted three years ago that Terryt...l would become the Pierre Polievre of Babble.
No it is just that no seat is ever safe, and this just proves it.
And you had said two years ago
That didn't happen
And you also said re Robert Chisholm
If you really have nothing better to do with your time than to troll, gloat and needle people about predictions/comments they made years ago - then I think you are very mean-spirited, sad, miserable person. It must really suck to be you.
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Thank you.
TT,
There are a great many predictions that you made that don't hold up well in hindsight: "OVER! (ad nauseam) ", the psychic thing, wrong-headed posts about the role of the Governor-General, etc. If we are doing a greatest hits and fails, you live in a very large glass house.
And speaking of people who should eat their words, this deadpan savaging of The Big Shift is one of the best things that I have read.
A pitch-perfect obliteration of John Ibbitson and Darryl Bricker, being two Conservative jerks, from Bricker's days in Mulroney's PMO and Ibbitson's hagiography of Mike Harris' 1995 crew.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/paulmcleod/book-review-the-big-shift-why-stephen...
Moving forward we now have to acknowledge NO seat and NO MP is immune from defeated. That is my only point.
Remember in 2014 I said Cheri DiNovo was going to be in the political fight of her life to hang on to Parkdale-High Park. Everyone here slammed me for that. But she won by the narrowest of margins, roughly 600 votes.
So when an MP is facing a challenger we need to acknowledge that anything can happen. That no MP seat is safe.
What the fuck is this thread doing on this site. It is gross and obnoxious and clearly breaks ever trolling rule in anyone's book.
Just because terrytowel is being idiotic doesn't give you the right to make disgusting statements like this - not even in humour. So if you're not capable of just using pure good-hearted humour here, I strongly advise you to reconsider. Actually, an apology wouldn't be bad.
And terrytowel - old buddy - if this is the kind of degeneration you were looking to provoke with this thread, you've succeeded. Maybe you should reconsider your style of plucking wings off flies and seeing what happens. It's unhealthy for real discussion.
MegB has suspended you for your pathological misogeny, not me. So that says it all.
Point well taken. But I have to say if the roles were reversed, the NDP Kool-Aid drinkers would be mocking me for my prediction 2 yrs ago had Megan Leslie won her seat.
If you notice in the above thread 2 years ago, they had already ripped me to shreds for suggesting Megan Leslie would be vulnerable. If she had won they would have continued to mock me for even suggesting she would lose her seat. So either way they would ramped up the attacks against me no matter what the outcome was.
We can't even have a serious discussion without rapid personal attacks being flung by the some of the rapid NDP partisans here. This thread just proves it.
Most of us wouldn't have remember nor cared. Hell I still don't.
Why was it so important to you so see Megan Leslie defeated, terry? It's not as though any NDP seats needed to go Liberal for Harper to be deposed.
Did Megan Leslie kick your dog into rush hour traffic or something?
As to your point about no seat being safe...well, so what?
As Chantal Hebert (member of the best political panel on Canadian TV) said on election night
"The NDP sacrificed the next generation of the NDP to compete with the Liberals in pursuit of power"
So don't get mad at me, get mad at the NDP election war room who sacrificed these great NDP MPs in the pursuit of power.
The biggest shock for me from Atlantic Canada wasn't that Leslie lost (halifax is a swing riding) but that Harris did. The last two elections he won with over 70% of the vote.