Election Be Damned

The Prime Minister has thrown down the gauntlet. He says he will fight an election over our continuing military presence in Afghanistan.

Now, here's the problem.

I don't agree with him on Afghanistan, and I have written about that many times here on the blog.

But, Stephane Dion? Jack Layton?

Mr. Harper is a difficult guy to like. He is stiff and autocratic. And he is easy to cartoon and even demonize.

But he has been a reasonably clear and thankfully quiet Prime Minister to date.

Until someone better appears on a white horse over the horizon, I would have to vote for him.

Have the Liberals ever addressed their failings and criminal behaviour of the past many years in office? No. Was Dion anything other than an appointee to an allegedly elected office? No.

Could Jack Layton lead a tuba parade? Not likely?

Often, I have voted NDP in the hope of maintaining some almost human opposition. I might do that again.