Eating our own. Rant Mode ON.

One would suppose that, in the interest of their own survival, the Libs at this point would be entertaining the notion of coalition. Guess it's that "pride goeth before a fall" stuff at work. I mean "Canada's natural governing party" has gotta be having a hard time eating crow. Their SO used to power.

And if a temporary coalition of the left were indeed to occur, this Canadian would be demanding the reform of our voting system as its first priority.

Go. Visit. OrphanVoters.ca.

If they truly cared about Canada and its values and culture, they would temporarily form a coalition. Or that's my opinion, anyway, for what it's worth.

McCain/Palin - Unstable/Unable

I am beyond pissed off. I am enraged. From the start of the campaign, individual groups of concerned citizens have tried all sorts of ways to rally support to vote out the Conservatives. This is real democracy at work -- citizens rallying together to demand change. Not any of this "keep them to a minority" magical thinking but kick them to the opposition curb. It was actually uplifting to see such a reaction. Even Duceppe and the Bloc joined in that cry straight out the gate.

Now instead of these partisan political hacks rejoicing in the fact that there were incredible movements afoot that demonstrated how hated Harper and his CONS are, they dismissed Duceppe as a desperate opportunist, spent days of valuable time debating who had excluded May from the debates. (Again, the public didn't give a rats ass about partisanship and were simply outraged by the tactic and demonstrated their democratic spirit by demanding her inclusion.) Again, like Duceppe, May was called desperate and an opportunist.

Meanwhile the Libs and Dippers as much time attacking each other than really attacking Harper effectively. Layton was happily conned into playing the US-style "leadership" game as Harper aka Rove North laughed at them all. Layton should never had thought he was in a position to attack the NDP -- what a waste of time. There are too many in Canada who equate the NDP with fiscal mismanagement, rightly or wrongly, so he wasted valuable time even focusing on them.

As for the Liberal Party, wholly crap what a bunch of backstabbing assholes. We get that Dion wasn't anyone's first choice but holy f*ck, you are willing to sacrifice our futures so that you can get another Leadership campaign off the freaking ground?!?! The message that sends to many Liberals is that the party picked a dud so vote for someone else. Might as well run an ad saying as much. Don't vote for me because even my own party would like to throw me under a bus.

May should have been more honourable if her main concern is defeating the CONservatives. She should have only run candidates where no other party had a chance of defeating incumbent CPC MPs. Yeah, I know it's all about the money but with a Harper majority, kiss your party good-bye. And Layton is hell bent to be the official opposition but even if he manages that, it will still be a weak one -- kind of like the Reform Party. It will be a precarious position and eventually there will have to be a unite the centre-left movement. And it will be probably a further right party than the current Liberals because no single party will be in a position to advance left progressive positions.

What you said.

I sick to death of the mud slinging between parties that generally agree with each other - and despite what some insist, we DO generally agree with each other, at least on the points you've outlined.

I don't give a rat's ass if Dion's a lousy speaker or if Paul Martin was a corporatist shill or if Layton's gone mad from the smell of blood in the water. I am a card-carrying member of the Liberal Party for a whole number of reasons, but you know what? If I lived in a riding where the NDP or even the Bloc candidate had the best chance of beating the Conservative, I'd vote for them in a cold minute.

I'm that scared.

I've lived long enough to have seen a lot of Conservative leaders come and go. I lived through Mulroney, I even lived through Harris, and you know what? This is the first time I have actually been afraid for my country.