They've barely left the altar and the forced marriage between the Conservatives and the Pension Democrats is already cracking under the EI strain. Joe Comartin and Peggy Nash aren't happy campers. (I wouldn't be either if I suddenly found myself wed to Stephen Harper!)
Poor Jack. What a way to go out as party leader. This has got to be the bonehead play of the year. The party couldn't even manage to get their pending name change up for a vote at their convention and now they are tarred with the brush of being this government's NBF, albeit a cranky one.
If this Prime Minister was counting on a sure-fire ally, he may as well guess again. Hopefully the Pension Democrats will finally come to their senses before the non-confidence motion is tabled.
I can just see the PM ROFL...having made a monkey once again of two opposition parties. If by chance Stephen Harper should suddenly drop dead, I suspect the death certificate will likely read "Died Laughing."...
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I find this somewhat amusing. I have never had any particular admiration for the Dippers as a political institution. I can see this whole scenario just helping to polarize the electorate between the LPC and the CPC.
ReplyDeleteI think the CPC has to put in a "poison pill" to get the Dippers to topple them before the LPC can start to look like a government in waiting.
I don't see that this is playing well in the Dipper trenches. Layton will be gone for sure now.
Perhaps we have been wrong Ronald, did the LPC engineer this situation to buy some time and it is the CPC that would prefer the election in the near term?
Howie,
ReplyDeleteNo question that taking on the Pension Democrats has big upside for Liberals. Jack has been outplayed by both Harper and Ignatieff. Rather surprising I must confess given his years as leader but there you have it.
Liberals have to do everything in their power to coax the strategic voting genie out of the bottle -- our chances are one hell of a lot better now that Jack is sleeping, at least occasionally, under Conservative covers.
This is where this Prime Minister severely miscalculated. It was an enormous strategic blunder which we will use to our full advantage. Watch the Conservative lead in most polls start to dissipate as the street-level Dippers move over, gradually at first, into our column. This is the foreword to the book of the PM's worst nightmare.