Posted on 01/23/2006 6:03:23 AM PST by fanfan
After the 2004 election, so many American liberals came down with depression that medical professionals coined a new phrase for their unhinged condition: post-election selection trauma (or PEST).
One wonders what malady Canadian liberals will contract after they lose at the polls in today's election. Meddling Michael Moore is already in the throes of despair.
Reuters reports:
A Canadian electorate that appears to have tired of more than a decade of Liberal rule was heading to the polls on Monday, seemingly ready to hand a limited mandate to the Conservatives.
It was a rematch of the 2004 election, a neck-and-neck race that ended up giving Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin a minority government, but this time Conservative leader Stephen Harper has built a much more substantial lead of six to 12 percentage points.
Martin's government was toppled in November over kickbacks from government contracts but rather than spending most of his time on that issue, Harper methodically laid out a policy a day during a campaign that ended up dispelling some of the doubts voters had about him in 2004.
"I felt almost from Day One that we were doing what we wanted to do, getting our message out, and the surprise for me from early on was that the Liberals didn't seem to be doing that," Harper told reporters on his plane on Sunday, the final day of the campaign, as he flew to British Columbia.
And the Ottawa Sun adds:
Liberal volunteers, organizers and even MPs are admitting certain defeat tomorrow night at the hands of Stephen Harper's Conservatives barring an 11th hour change of heart by Canadian voters.
As Grit troops fan across Canada in a last-ditch effort to turn the tide, they're weighed down by the latest polls that show the Conservatives remain in the lead and have gained substantial ground in Quebec.
Most Grits publicly insist there's still a chance their leader Paul Martin will "pull a rabbit out of the hat" and bring home a second Liberal minority government, but privately they admit that they've lost faith.
"I wish we were going to win but we are going to lose," said a long-time Liberal organizer working in Toronto who has booked a vacation to a sun destination next week to boost his spirits.
"I wish we could pick up just enough seats to pull it off."
When asked when he threw in the towel, the veteran Grit said "when we had no time left to rebound in the polls."
John Tabin predicts:
It's possible, though not likely, that the Conservatives will win an outright majority in Parliament. But even if they don't, and need to form a coalition government, they will have more of a chance to move an agenda than one would expect. As a political consultant explained to me in Washington a few months ago before heading north to work for the Conservatives, the leaders of the Tories' prospective coalition partner, the separatist Bloc Quebecois, are willing to give Harper several years of rule (but expect lots of Tory reforms to exempt Quebec). The Conservative victory will be a real one, and not just for Harper and his party but for Canada, for North America, and for the world.
As Tabin points out, the revolution is taking place with thanks to American blogger Ed Morrissey of Captain's Quarters, who single-handedly helped blow the lid off the Canadian liberals' culture of corruption.
All eyes will be on the Canadian blogosphere today as election events unfold.
From Things We Wonder About.
Seeing Michelle's picture is the only thing better than reading her prose.
If the conservatives take over Canada, to where can our liberals flee?
I hope CSPAN will be showing some of the election results. Do we know what time polls start closing?
I don't know much about the Canadian conservatives. As I recall, Mulroney helped bring down that party and was not that good of a leader. Is Harper better? I already like him now that I head Michael Moore is imploring Canadians not to vote for him!
Impossible. Why, I was just reading a MSM news source (NY Slimes, perhaps...the name escapes me, since the MSM is so forgettable) where the writer said even if the Conservatives won, it would be a futile win--because the Conservatives would not have a workable government.
Let's see what the voters of Canada have to say, eh?
CSPAN will carry the CBC election coverage tonight at about 9 pm EST.
I know where the Conservatives go:
Tennessee!
I know several medical doctors who've moved there in the past decade or so.
I'd suggest Venezuela. I'm sure they would find a warm welcome there and they would get a front row seat at watching a liberal utopia in action.
All polls in Canada are closed by 7 pm pacific time (10 pm eastern).
Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta all close at 9 eastern time.
Newfoundland polls close at 7 pm eastern time. (8:30 pm Newfoundland time)
"Where do Canadians go when they leave their country in protest?"
Florida. I just returned to PA from my annual golf-walk-about in Florida and met {as usual} many kanucks. I didn't talk politics {as a rule} but some went out of their way to show support for GWB. The fact that I have a "Condi 2008" sticker, as well as an {I have a permit and I carry sticker} on my golf bag, may have given them a clue as to my political leaning. I found that if you are armed, people have more respect for your views. {just a joke... but true}.
American libs who are afraid of the "gestapo" type American government will love it in Cuba too.
"On a completely unrelated topic, I love the way David Warren ended his Citizen column today.
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I consider it our moral duty to assist in removing the Liberals from power, and replacing them with something a little better. That is the primary thing, tomorrow, and it means, unambiguously, voting Conservative.
I would vote for my local Conservative if he had two heads and five elbows and was married to a same-sex yeti in Tibet. And I would vote for him with a clean conscience."
http://andrewcoyne.com/
I like your idea! This will be a psychologial balm to the Liberals. However, the name will have to change: What's the Ottowa version of a "West Wing"? Is there a special name for the Canadian PM's office?
Sorry, my northern friends!
Prime Minister's office = P.M.O.
Residence = 24 Sussex Drive.
LOL!
I was in Texas this weekend, and ended up speaking to a couple from Southern Ontario who 'still hadn't decided who to vote for'. Argghh!
I tried to swing them, but who knows.
I wonder what's going to happen to all those American liberals who ran up to Canada to escape from conservatism, once Stephen Harper is Prime Minister.
Regards, Ivan
PMO.....the Prime Ministers Office.
Their heads will start exploding in despairing disbelief.Hehe.
They didn't come.
They're liberals. They lied.
They complain, but don't do anything to fix things for themselves.
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