Betwixt and Between
The arrival of the RCMP in escort of Elections Canada at the CPC headquarters likely looking for evidence of sharp practice in the last election has, as the pros say, bad optics.
Which would be of no moment were the CPC in some sense in charge in Ottawa. Instead, the CPC governs by the grace of the Liberal Party’s grand gesture to eco-craziness – M. Dion.
The polling is very much in the air but it seems apparent that if an election were to be held today….we’d have wasted several million dollars. It is possible that Dion would win. It is [possible that Harper could pull out a squeaker but neither the Libs nor the CPC have succeeded much beyond reducing the NDP to a laughingstock. A worthy but ultimately irrelevant goal.
So here we are. The party in power is terrified of offending anyone and Her Majesty’s Opposition terrified of actually going to the people.
An election in the near future is, I think, a good thing. I doubt that either the Libs or the CPC will win a majority; but the loser will pick a new leader and that has to be better than woodman v. the boffin.
Politics is, or should be, about setting out real goals and a real vision for a term in office. These dweebs can barely set out a daily to-do list. It is well past time to dump both leaders and bring Canadian politics into a new world. The new world is already here. If the political elites keep pretending it isn’t Canada will be left behind.
To catch up we need to lose both leaders. They are yesterday’s men and should, even at an early age, gently retire to make way for people who understand that the world really has changed.
I wouldn’t ever bet against Harper. He seems to come out on top of every single situation he is supposed to lose badly at. I’m not sure I’d ever invite the fellow to my home for coffee, but I’ll admit that he’s one hell of a chess player.
If he has a problem, it’s that his pawns tend to move around the board on their own, which is the source of most of his bad optics.
Besides, all the Conservatives need to do in the runup to the next election is buy commericals that show nothing but Dion prissily eating a hot dog with a knife and fork. That alone is enough to finish him so far as most normal Canucks are concerned. After all, what kind of @#$%ing loser eats a hot dog with a knife and fork? How do you take that kind of a person seriously?
Well Harper hasn’t been as strong as I’d wished, but who are our choices for next leader? At least the liberal have some options, with both Iggy and Rae frothing for power.
Warren gets another one wrong: he has the caption of an Elections Canada dude as “RCMP”, even though it wasn’t even an RCMP operation.
The fact that the guy is actually a FORMER Mountie, who worked on the Gomery Inquiry and helped finger Gagliano makes it even that much more delish…
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