Some quick election comments...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper...hmmmmm. I'm still mulling that over. For a self described liberal, this was not what I wanted in an election but as I have pondered what actually happened, perhaps things worked out as they should.

While I think Paul Martin was a decent PM he was tainted by the Sponsorship scandal and he would never be able to live that down. A new leader was neccessary and some distance has to be placed between the sponsorship era Liberals and those who are going to come after. But let's look at what really happened.

The Liberals were forced into an election when the NDP withdrew support on a confidence motion and the government fell. Put simply the Liberals ran a terrible campaign making mistake after mistake. The Tory's were successful at putting forward a policy based campaign that was fairly non-controversial and banal, but more importantly they were able to keep the far right of their party out of the papers. (mostly, somehow this escaped the notice of the MSM, this guy was elected in Ajax-Pickering) So in short, everything that the Liberals could do to fuck this up they did, the Conseratives were error free for the most part.

120 seats? That's it? There was a perfect storm of opportunity for the Conservatives, they did everything they possibly could and that was all they could manage? A revitalized Liberal party lead by a respected and competent leader who is free of the stink of corruption will wipe the floor with Stephen Harper's turtle neck in 2 years time. Stephen Harper's best chance will be to govern from the center and try not to rock the boat, but is that what the Conservative base wants?

PS I thought this picture was kind of strange, what father shakes their kids hands? Try a hug buddy!
PPS. Spell check isn't working on blogger, my apologies if there are an seplling errors.