Two columnists have surprised Canadians (me, at least) somewhat this election year with their support of Conservatives, simply because they were better known for their liberalness.
One, Sheila Copps, was even a Liberal Party cabinet minister. Michael Harris was known as a liberal-friendly columnist and radio talk-show host. But several times I’ve pointed to their columns at their respective Sun Media newspapers because I’d liked what they said about Conservatives or against Liberals (which in case you’re late to the game, is my thang, here).
Michael Harris also happens to be a particularly good writer. Read Michael Harris’s column this morning—another good one—from the Ottawa Sun.
[…] In chess, there is a moment when all is lost in which the about-to-be defeated player can simply lay down his king.
It is called resigning. Its principal value is to avoid the death of a thousand cuts, accept the inevitable, and get on with a new game on a better day.
But politics is not chess. It is more like a brutal hockey game, where, trailing by five goals in the third period, you have to play out the clock.
[…] Like all condemned men, they are beginning to resort to improbable bravado that borders on the risible. Paul Martin’s demand that Stephen Harper “show Canadians the money” which will pay for Tory promises is a good example of what I mean. At least Tory money comes in the usual form, political promises, not in paper bags handed off to slick friends.
It is rather like Martin’s earlier attempt in this same doomed campaign to suggest that Harper was not “fit” to be prime minister. With more skeletons in his party’s closet than the dinosaur exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum, it was, at best, a dubious choice of battlefields for the PM. Encased in the amber of the Gomery inquiry, his party’s malfeasance fixed forever in history like the mummified looters of ancient Pompei, the last thing Paul Martin needed Canadians to focus on was fitness to govern. […]
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