Anti-SF strategy emerges (again)

So Enda Kenny will only do a leaders debate if all 5 leaders are invited. 

He doesn't need the extra opportunity to promote Fine Gael's raft of 'different' policies that would be afforded him with only Michael Martin and Eamon Gilmore to compete with?  Surely he is missing the opportunity to allow his statesman qualities shine through. 

No.  He wants Gerry Adams to be there.  So does Michael and Eamon.  It would suit them all to be able to turn the focus on to Adams in an attempt to portray SF as economically illiterate.  They sense a repeat of the 2007 head to head where Michael McDowell, like some dying wasp, stung Gerry.  To be honest, the sting had a huge effect.  It is all completely unfair of course.  It no way reflects on Gerry's grasp of economics in reality.  But perception is important and fairness doesn't come into it.

Its all very predictable.  The attention can be shifted from the consensus for cuts.  All that the other parties need to do is win a glorified beauty contest based on a flawed notion that FG, with or without Labour, will be sufficiently 'different' to FF to carry the country forward.  All very predictable, except...

We knew this was going to happen.  Right?

...and SF are not alone in this.  Large swathes of the Unions share SF's analysis, as do many economists, including David McWilliams.  The information is available, the ammunition is there. 

Furthermore, whose mess is this?  Which economic orthodoxy created the conditions for run away banks and shifty developers?  Fine Gael share support with Fianna Fail for the economic approach taken over the past 20 or so years.  Labour, alas, are prepared to prolong this Irish Thatcherism by supporting Fine Gael in a coalition.  Let these parties go first in there answer to the above questions.  Shrug off petty predictable jibes and keep it simple.