Grow up and govern

It’s the campaign that just keeps giving.

Outgoing Liberal leader Stephane Dion claims he and the Liberals lost the Oct. 14 election because Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Tories were mean, saying unfair things about him.

From a campaign with moments of hack-up-blood laughter, this is rich.

Dion is lucky he didn’t have to contend with the likes of former NDP leader Alexa McDonough: there’s somebody who could quickly say mean things and take the paint off a wall. I’m sure she could even have come up with mean things about Mother Theresa. Dion would have been easy pickins, a mere speed bump on her way over to Stephen Harper’s place to verbally kick his ass.

Never mind Harper has constantly and consistently been attacked by Liberals and their not-so-secret agents in the media and academia for years. He, after all – they say, has a secret agenda. He wants us all to go to work (horrors), to church (the affrontery) or become Americans or Australians (like many of our friends and relatives). Harper wants to lean heavier on youths who commit murder and the like. Where would he get such cruel ideas?

And how many times has Harper’s name been connected to that of the outgoing (finally, to every one’s relief) U.S. president George W. Bush?

All of that abuse, and Harper is still prime minister.

But with one plug of puffin poop and reminders of his leadership capabilities, Stephane Dion and his elves are claiming “no fair”. Next thing, Dion will be saying Stephen Harper hit him during the campaign.

Lest I appear to be belatedly and cowardly putting the boots to an already prostrate victim, Dion is not the real target. His situation is merely a symptom; he is just another victim, like the rest of us, of his party’s failures over the past few years.

It would have been so easy for the Liberals to have realized time was passing them by and it was time they put away adolescent policies and attitudes. If they had only supported Paul Martin Jr. more and better, just about now he - and they - would be looking toward seeking his second majority government.