Malkin ping!
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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.
LOL!
Ah, so perhaps Martin Sheen can hone his Canadian patois, and the Grits can be treated to the premiere of a new show, called "PMO" :-)
Don't be fooled by what members took campaign bucks from Abramoff and the Indian tribal councils. All will hinge on what members returned the favors with more than an occaisional vote. The Dems will claim, with some validity, that the GOP House rules prevented them from introducing legislation, so any laws beneficial to Abramoff will be seen as GOP in origin.This is going to be a problem that must be dealt with head on by the GOP.
I love Michelle Malkin. She's a great writer, a great speaker and a great Conservative. Just compare her with say, Hellary Clinton? Why is it that the Liberal women are such hags??? They always look mad. The Conservative women are much more free than these supposed Women's Libs!! I notice that they seem to be better looking to. It must come from the "inside"!!
I'd be heading to my girlfriend and her husband's house in Austin, Tx.!! I LOOOOVED TEXAS!!
Good point.
I wonder if Hilary or Kerry will turn on the news tonight.
Maybe they will wait until tomorrow.
:-)
cgk, Ping.
fanfan, hang on, you got a lot of FRiends pulling for the right side to win!!!!
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Thanks for the head's up :)!
You're welcome. Know you can't find everything she writes, she is on busy lady!!!
Great to see you Springman!
Are we going Blue tonight?
I got a six pack of Molson Golden.
If I can stay up, I'll be watching.
If not, I'll watch something at 3:30 or 4:00.
Congratulations to all Canadians on their victory! Way to go Canada!
Thank you!
The numbers aren't as large as we'd like, but at least we threw the bums out.
;-)
Hey FRiend!
We did it!
Congrats up north!!!
Congrats up north!!!
Congrats up north!!!
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