The Biggest Loser Ever Speaks

Quiet, you know it's true:

Former Tory prime minister Kim Campbell says she doesn't think Stephen Harper will win the federal election because Canadians are too afraid of his party's social conservative agenda....

"Their (the Conservative party's) positions are too socially conservative, I think, to form a government in Canada," said Campbell about the Jan. 23 election. "People may like their fiscal policies but they're frightened by their social conservatism...It's a pity because it denies people a choice on policy issues."

Campbell served as the first female justice minister and defence minister before becoming prime minister after Brian Mulroney stepped down as party leader.

But she only held the post for just more than four months after calling an election in 1993, when the Progressive Conservative party was reduced to two seats in the House of Commons. Campbell lost her own Vancouver seat and she retired from politics.

At my place of employment, we've recently taken on a bunch of new seasonal help for the Christmas rush. One of them said to me on Wednesday: "Canada's never had a woman PM, right?"

When I asked if he remembered Kim Campbell, he said no.

I feel very old. I'm 24! How does this happen?

Anyway, sticking with the biggest loser, Wonderdog says:

It is time for those who strongly oppose a conservative government to recognize that we already have one. And it is time for those who strongly oppose a conservative government to send a clear message to the Liberal Party, that we will not stand for a government of bullshit artists who talk from the left side of their mouths and govern from the right.

It is time to recognize that Canada has only one left-wing party, and two conservative parties. Our choice is between a social democratic party, a strongly conservative party, and a conservative party that calls itself "Liberal." It is time to take the fiction of a "Liberal Party" down to the gravel pit, shove its head underwater, and hold it there until bubbles stop coming up.

It is time to hand Paul Martin the stomping he so richly deserves, to knock him down and kick him until he bleeds, and then to shove his vile, rotten carcass down the steps of parliament into the street where it will be slowly picked apart by seagulls.

It is time, in short, to make Paul Martin the next Kim Campbell.

I'm not there with you yet, Wonderdog. But if Martin doesn't try something radical like campaigning for office soon, it's going to happen anyway - with or without the NDP.

No doubt, when the Liberals go down in flames we'll be blamed for it. Oh well.