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douglas bell

I acknowledge that the following is piling on (not to mention stereotyping, exaggerating and distorting) of the worst sort.

Who woulda thunk it? The leader of the Liberal Party of Canada (the Party of Trudeau -- a rose in his lapel whilst pirouetting behind the Queen's back) appears to be a glowering Richard III-like disciplinarian demanding fealty from his subjects whilst the leader of the Conservative Party (the party of Diefenbaker glowering down the dais at Dalton Camp) cheerily tickles the ivories warbling the very anthem of insouciant youth. I'm reminded of nothing so much as the following famed passage of dialogue from the movie Ghostbusters.

Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.

Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?

Dr. Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.

Venkman: Exactly.

Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!

Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...

Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!

Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

Okay so maybe that's a little over the top. Still, one wonders how in the face of the current poll numbers the Grits can do anything but stand down. On Saturday, my fellow blogger Brian Topp wrote:

" Too many key indicators ('time for a change,' 'leader best at,' 'overall satisfaction,' and 'country is on the right track/wrong track') are currently trending towards being positive for Mr.Harper and his government. These are leading indicators of where voting intentions might be in a few months."

And those polls were taken before Steve-o started massaging the keys.

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