Did Grits Intentionally Hand Harper the Election on a Platter ?

I have wondered about the lack of typical Grit viciousness and vulgar sleaze in the first few weeks of the election campaign. Both the Grit attack machine and their media have been conspicuously off their game and ...well...civil…at least as much as a Grit election machine can be these days. This seems to have dampened the din of the now standard maniacal, bleating fear mongering and callow flag waving which seemed to be about all this ethically devoid visionless regime has left the hurl at opponents. I noticed their camp followers in the media did not show up for the usual one sided commentary onslaught they usually provided to rum interference for their partisan masters.....all these liberal camp mechanisms seemed to fall silent this election, allowing Harper the CPC and alternative voices to actually be heard for the first time in 15 years...and of course once a viable alternative is actually heard, people respond positively…..thus the “momentum”.

So who turned off the Liberal attack machine and why? Well Bourque gives us some insight into my suspicions:

"Forget what Don Newman and Mike Duffy are glazing you over with, the election has not just begun, it's just about done. Get out the four-pronged eating implement, the party's over for Paul Martin and his Liberal Party. Bourque has learned that a cancerous malaise has infiltrated the highest echelons of his braintrust, a leadership increasingly desperate to gain traction in the waning weeks of the campaign. Senior Martin Libs are privately telling Bourque that "the game is over". Not even "mega-billion dollar policy Hail Maries", as one lifer put it, is buying goodwill from an increasingly cynical electorate. One key source, a Martin heavyweight in the Toronto financial community, surprised Bourque overnight with an email touting a potential post-Martin leadership candidate. "The writing's on the wall, Pierre, you were right, but (name omitted) is the real deal, you watch, his time is coming !"

Further evidence of grave concern at the top is witnessed by a very well-placed operative inside the Liberal War Room who claims a certain degree of discord is beginning to permeate the front-line troops based on increasingly distressful poll results. "Pierre", noted one regional campaign kingpin who prefers to remain in the weeds, "the national campaign has stalled and HQ is not taking input from us, it's very frustrating !" Add to that, news from Tom Clark, CTV's top political observer, who told his eggs-and-bacon audience this morning that the Liberal campaign team has a mole who is leaking policy and platform information to the Conservatives and the media, something Bourque told Martin bullwark David Herle in an email three days ago. For skulduggery lovers, the plot thickens. For Martin Liberals, sadly, the plot sickens. "Only a miracle can save us", admitted one longtime Lib MP. One word of caution, Bourque admires the Liberals' incredible ability to fight back from the precipice. Herle and his key folks are heroic fighters, they have every quality needed to turn this thing around. As a well-known TV pundit put it to Bourque, "these guys haven't won as often as they have because they roll over when things get tough." Developing ...

Yes...interesting for those of us who watch deep politics fermenting. My take is that this election was conceded to the CPC before the writ was dropped.

The power brokers in the Liberal cartel saw Martin (and his certain to be discovered personal corruption) as a liability with the cynical mood of the electorate..... and had decided they had to rid themselves of another Jonah leader (Cretch was the last) and his cancerous empire building political support cartel. He was a political liability and a far too ambitious leader who worked for a Quebec corporate cartel in isolation from the party power borkers in ROC. The party owners outside of the Quebec network want to purge it of an inept, unsellable, uncontrollable leadership and install a new dynasty builder.

Losing an election is the perfect excuse to purge the leader and party ranks of liability prone "warring" factions and install a new infrastructure of yes men and quislings all pointed in the same direction...where the party owners want them...uniformly aligned behind a freshly installed messiah-leader. This, they feel, will be a relatively painless 4 year ( or less) waltz in the opposition benches before they come back at us with new untracable funding mechanisms that can't be cracked and a new organizational discipline that would make the Borg blush. I also note there are indications from the Liberal party mandarins that a messiah leadership candidate will appear shortly....like Trudeau did when Pearson seemed certain to doom the Libs to political oblivion.

This all begs the question: was this election handed to Harper?

The "leaks" from the command center and collective liberal media civility tell me it was.

My advice to Mr. Harper> graciously accept this government and proceed to govern better, more honorably, accoutably, inclusively, democratically and scandal free than any regime before.