Smearlection...

[Marmoot]

Smearlection is coming up...

Why can't we get parties and candidates who emphasis on what they can bring into the government and the people, and elect based on the good stuffs that we like?

I'm sick of candidates who focus on how bad the others are instead of the leading edge they have.

This smearlection seems more not like who's the best, but more of who's the best of the worsts.

Sickening.

[ManDownUnder]

See the 2nd rule of business... (per Dr Richard Buchanan Massey Uni PN Circa 1990)

1st rule - don't shoot yourself in the foot
2nd Rule - while you have your gun in hand - shoot the other guy's foot.

[Marmoot]

That's the one I'm complaining about.

[R6_kid:Me]

How about the fact that when they do get in, they spend all their time in the debating chamber taking cheap shots at each other instead of actually running this country they way it should be getting run.

[Big Dave]

The summary of a 10,000 word report:

Practical Implications
The results of this study provide empirical evidence suggesting that comparative advertising is not inherently more persuasive than non-comparative advertising. However, the experimental results suggest that a comparative advertisement is more persuasive than a non-comparative advertisement when higher construction-motivated involvement is activated and a source of higher credibility is included in the advertisement. Therefore, practitioners should use sources with a high degree of credibility when engaging in comparative advertising. These results also suggest that copy tests of comparative advertisements should examine the audiences' perception of the credibility of the source. This research contributes new empirical evidence identifying conditions within which comparative advertising is likely to have a more positive effect on purchase intentions than non-comparative advertising. This study also suggests that practitioners might use attribution theory as the framework for developing more effective comparative advertisements.

[avgas]

don't like it - don't vote
i don't and the same monkeys get in anywho. But at the end of the day unless i paid an assassin to kill them all the place would be full of monkeys anyways.
Its kinda like assholes. You never look at your asshole in the mirror, you never compare your asshole to your neighbors.....politics if full of assholes. And so should be treated as such a device.
You don't need it - but without it you wouldn't have shit would you.

[Hitcher]

Coke versus Pepsi. When people tire of one, they switch to the other.

There is no fundamental difference between our two major political parties. Indeed nearly all of the other "parties" (with the possible exception of the Greens) are disgruntled members of either Labour or National who've used the crock called MMP to keep themselves in Parliament. Neither of the major parties is offering anything innovative or constructive. Even if they were, it would be watered down after the election as they sucked the dicks of potential coalition partners.

We're not living in a democracy, nor are we allowed to. Any efforts from the electorate to have a referendum to vote on the future of the farce that is MMP have so far been thrown out by politicians with a vested interest in its retention.

If I could find somewhere better to live politically, I'd be there. Meanwhile I'll stay here and moan.

And in New Zealand they're arseholes. Assholes only live in the USA.

[Robert Taylor]

Coke versus Pepsi. When people tire of one, they switch to the other.

There is no fundamental difference between our two major political parties. Indeed nearly all of the other "parties" (with the possible exception of the Greens) are disgruntled members of either Labour or National who've used the crock called MMP to keep themselves in Parliament. Neither of the major parties is offering anything innovative or constructive. Even if they were, it would be watered down after the election as they sucked the dicks of potential coalition partners.

We're not living in a democracy, nor are we allowed to. Any efforts from the electorate to have a referendum to vote on the future of the farce that is MMP have so far been thrown out by politicians with a vested interest in its retention.

If I could find somewhere better to live politically, I'd be there. Meanwhile I'll stay here and moan.

And in New Zealand they're arseholes. Assholes only live in the USA.

I both agree and disagree. One of the big fundamental problems is a very large slice of the electorate are generationally conditioned to ''the state will look after us'' Its all about who is offering the biggest bag of lollies and our 3 year electoral cycle, and yes ''mickey mouse politics''. The political climate that I would like would expunge the ''world owes us a living mentality'' and make people get a grip on their own self discipline and responsibility. But if you campaigned on such policies you would be unelectable.
The National party is far from perfect and too leftward but still far preferable to the most corrupt Government in our history.

[Flatcap]

I both agree and disagree.

Definitely 'arseholes'

[AllanB]

Great a few months of Helens "seal" laugh on public TV.

[Flatcap]

Great a few months of Helens "seal" laugh on public TV.

Nah - is more like a walrus:

[jrandom]

Why can't we get parties and candidates who emphasis on what they can bring into the government and the people, and elect based on the good stuffs that we like?

Sounds to me as though sir needs to wake up and smell the bud.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party.

Tick the leaf in 2008!

[Niterider]

I both agree and disagree. One of the big fundamental problems is a very large slice of the electorate are generationally conditioned to ''the state will look after us'' Its all about who is offering the biggest bag of lollies and our 3 year electoral cycle, and yes ''mickey mouse politics''. The political climate that I would like would expunge the ''world owes us a living mentality'' and make people get a grip on their own self discipline and responsibility. But if you campaigned on such policies you would be unelectable.
The National party is far from perfect and too leftward but still far preferable to the most corrupt Government in our history.

Now you're talking like Leighton Smith!!

[Robert Taylor]

Now you're talking like Leighton Smith!!

Wouldnt know, never listen to him. But I hear he makes a lot of sense.

[jrandom]

Wouldnt know, never listen to him. But I hear he makes a lot of sense.

I take it you won't be voting ALCP, then?