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Free Dominion :: Home: "Cutting to the chase -- Liberals must go

by Peter O'Donnell

It's natural for those of us who are self-condemned 'political junkies' to care about the minutiae of an election campaign. To some of us, every speech, every photo op, and every debating point, inflates to take on enormous significance, supposedly deciding the fate of nations.

Sometimes nations need to take a valium and get a grip on the facts. In this campaign, Paul Martin could give a speech of Churchillian proportions, some party insider could reveal a devastating insight about Harper or Layton, or some policy announcement could rock the very foundations of Ajax (Omo cleans whiter).

And to all that, this observer, who lives three hours behind the real world in a part of Canada where snow is but a vague rumour, would say the following:

This is the Liberal Party of Canada you're talking about. Ya know, those crooks who stole forty million (and that's just Gomery's estimate of one crime scene) and don't plan to pay more than 3 per cent back.

In other words, like most western Canadians, I don't care if the whole Liberal cabinet does cartwheels down the main street of Medicine Hat in scarlet red jump suits, they are still the party that vastly deserves a time out in the deepest, darkest depths of opposition.

I am not talking about a slap on the wrist, but a punch in the jaw. If it was sensible for the Canadian voters to reduce the 1993 Conservatives from 180 seats to 2, then an equal amount of common sense would put the entire Liberal caucus on Hans Island, wherever exactly that may be, where they can fight the armed forces of Denmark for the next five years, since they have such a new-found interest in national defence.

Think about it: the Liberals are so obviously corrupt that even the NDP has noticed and are running on that issue themselves.

I hope to gain the attention of the Ontario (meaning national) media on this rather s"