Crooked in Canada

“I think Canadians are dying to vote Liberal”-Stephane Dion

With sixteen days to go until Canadians cast their vote in Election 08, new polls are showing support levels in the mid 20 per cent range for the Liberal Party of Canada, and the New Democrats closing in on the Liberals. It isn’t looking good for the Liberals, and it would appear that Stephane Dion’s days as Liberal leader are numbered. The writing is on the wall.

Dion, who I am sure most Canadians will agree, has done nothing to bolster the Liberal Party’s fortunes since he made a back room deal with Michael Ignatieff and as a result of his failure to salvage what was left of a fledgling party after the sponsorship scandal, the Liberals are dangerously close to handing the Conservative Party a majority government. As far as I am concerned most of the blame for that rests solely on the shoulders of a man who has spent far too much time attacking Stephen Harper and the Conservative government and not enough time working in his party’s own best interests.

Funny that Dion is now blaming his party’s problems on the campaign trail on PM Harper, going so far as to say that he has never seen a government spend so much time destroying a person (Dion) and his policies as the Conservative government has spent on doing to him. He made the claim during a campaign event in Stoney Creek, Ontario on Saturday.

I don’t know who is writing this stuff for Dion, but if I were to hazard a guess I think Garth Turner might have had something to do with Dion’s immature response to two poll results that show the Conservatives in “majority government” territory, and the Liberals barely hanging onto to second spot ahead of the NDP who I thought up until today weren’t going to make any significant gains in this election.

Speaking of Garth Turner, is it just me or is the pseudo-Liberal MP been flying under the radar in this election campaign? Has somebody put a muzzle on him, or have I been too caught up in the euphoria surrounding the possibility that Canada

could very well have a majority government for the first time in a long time and that finally some work will actually get done in the House of Commons for a change instead of the constant bickering brought on by the Liberal Party?

About Dion’s claim that he thinks Canadians are dying to vote for Liberal; if that were true, how come the polls are saying otherwise?

How come an Angus Reid Strategies survey places the Tories at 40 per cent, and the Liberals and NDP deadlock at 21 per cent?

How come the latest Harris-Decima poll has the Tories at 38 per cent, the NDP closing in on 19 percent, and the Liberals at 23 per cent, where they have been languishing for about a week now?

Assuming that the two polls are accurate and credible when it comes to gauging which way Canadians will vote, I would have to say that Canadian voters aren’t even close to putting their lives on the line to vote for Liberals, that the only way the Liberal Party can save themselves in this election is if dead Canadians were allowed to vote.

Blaming the Tories for his party’s poor showing so far in this election because of personal attacks on him and his policies, is Dion serious or has he been smoking way too much pot? What a loser.

Dion blames Harper’s ‘low-blow’ tactics for poor Liberal poll numbers