Rock and Roll Conservative

I've seen this movie before

So once again the Conservative Party is opening up a lead over the Liberals. Once again Stephen Harper is poised to lead a campaign against a humourless academic. And once again a lot of conservatives are dreaming of a majority conservative government.

Don't get me wrong, this is all good news. And yet I can't shake the feeling that I've seen all of this before and I know ending of this movie. The Conservatives enter into a campaign with promise, the media eventually takes aim at them and some no-name Conservative candidate makes the party look like the far right-wing wackos its struggled mightily to avoid looking like.

And once again we're stuck with a minority government, meaning yet another Conservative government that swings towards the center to ensure surviving the inevitable confidence motions.

Hardly inspiring.

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