Holy S***! The Toronto Sun gets it Right!

From Lonnie Goldstein no less. I pretty much agree with him on every count, except that the Liberals were perceived to be corrupt, but were not, as a body, actually corrupt. Governing without vision, yes, corrupt, not so much.

The best description I heard from Lonnie:

"Finally, voters are still satisfied, for now, with having thrown out a Liberal government they saw as arrogant and politically corrupt, just as Ontarians were in 1990 when they tossed out Peterson and elected Rae. But will Harper's early numbers hold a year from now? Who knows? So far all we really know about him is that he has some excellent leadership qualities (drive, intelligence, focus, vision) and some bad ones (stubbornness, arrogance, hypocrisy , pettiness.)"

Wow. How many times do you hear me chide the PM, who has a demonstrable intellect, for playing cynical low brow politics. Stephen Harper's smarter than he acts. I wonder how he reconciles his purported love of free speech with the 'messaging' that his government engages in. However the Rt. Hon. Mr. Harper's problem may well prove to be that he thinks he doesn't have to win people like me over. He does if he ever wants a majority. Joe won in '79 because he won 'average folk' over, giving the earnest impression that he actually gave a damn. And he actually tried to win the chattering classes during his government, unlike Harper who thinks he will be able to win the next election against the Chretien government. The only propblem that Clark had was that Trudeau clobbered him with his newfound nationalism in '80. Otherwise, if Trudeau had exited, we might be talking about the Clark era today.

I'll blog about fixed election dates and the elected Senate later. (And why I remain opposed to both.)