So if you believe that the Liberal election strategy during the recent federal election campaign was to allow Stephen Harper to self destruct you realize now that didn't work. In fact by the time the Liberal insiders figured out that they needed to go to plan B (oh my God we Don't Have a Plan B!) it was too late...
or was it?
Seems if the Liberals had called a 70 day campaign their plan might have worked!
Conservative back benchers, including the always colourful Garth Turner, have started to turn on their leader and his "Two can play that game" decision to recruit political opportunist David Emerson.
This may turn out to be the shortest political honeymoon in Canadian history (less than 2 hours by my count) before the gloves came off and criticisms began to fly in every direction.
Another important element in being a great leader is knowing when to retreat so you can live and fight another day. Not sure Stephen Harper is prepared to die on the David Emerson decision, however with hints of a reversal on the national childcare policy maybe he can't afford to flip flop on yet another decision.
Question - if we have another federal election in 2006 do the same returing officers get to do the job?
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