[habs4ever]

I'll tell you a story about the Tories.

Three years ago, at a family function, one of Mulrooney's oldest and best friends, who is a bigtime Quebec Tory, told me all how the Tories were going to coalesce around McKay,dump Clark, and the new untited Right was going to take shape, with the Tories being the natural leaders.He snottily said that the Alliance had no place to go and that only the Tories can win nationally.That he and his cohorts were party to the Tory implosion in Canada was skipped over, but his scenario was plausible, if a national Tory leader could emerge( I still think possible, with Mike Harris being the guy).He implored all right wingers to hold on and work towards a united front.

I learned a couple of weeks back that he is now one of Paul Martin's biggest fundraisers and has thrown in the towel on the Tories.This is the Tory party legacy after 10 yrs in the wilderness...

[GiveEmDubya]

Mike Harris was the ONLY Tory who could have made the PCP competitive. Maybe Lord could have done it too, but he seems to have bigger problems now (i.e. holding together a 1-seat majority).

I don't see Harris as running though. From what I understand, he said he would have run if the Tories and Alliance came together. If MacKay starts to limp badly coming down the stretch, they could pull a Torricelli and stick someone else in the leadership. Maybe not a probable scenario, but anything can happen.