Sorry, Good Friend.

Dear Blog,

Sorry for abandoning you for so long. I do feel guilty -- it's almost as if I've cheated on you. That wasn't right, running elsewhere to fight battles among many people who just aren't interested in really hearing what you have to say.

Don't get me wrong. I'm right some of the time but I've also been full of shit on more than one occasion. Yes, my ego is as big as everyone else's but time for some humble pie.

And now to business:

Canadians thirst for leadership. They aren't searching for the "next" dictator but then again, neither are they interested in the "next" patsy. We know precisely what we've got with this Prime Minister and where he's going, for better or worse.

That seems to be sufficient for most voting Canadians. I feel truly sorry for them. That's certainly not what I'm hoping for in the next prime minister. I'm looking for a leader who puts his own political interests second to that of the nation; I want a guy running the operation who feels it right down to his balls that this country, as we have traditionally known it, is going to hell in a hand basket and that he bloody well better do something about it, and quickly; I'm pulling for someone who is not merely content to take "direction" from the Canadian people; I'm with that fellow over there who knows when and how to draw the line in the sand, and more importantly, why.

Spring will be our hour of reckoning. I'm tired of being disappointed.