Stephen Harper and the Disastrous State of the Con Campaign

When Stephen Harper launched the longest election campaign since 1926, he no doubt hoped that by now he would have crushed his political enemies

Thrown them under the wheels of his mighty bus.

Or smeared them beyond recognition as he flew over them in his shiny new plane...



And if that campaign had been normal in length, we would be voting next week, instead of in six weeks.

Which as it turns out is just as well for Harper, because not only are his opponents alive and kicking. His campaign so far has been an absolute DISASTER...



And no doubt more of an ordeal than he had imagined.

Everything has gone wrong. No sooner had the campaign begun when he had to start running from Mike Duffy...



And running from all those embarrassing questions.

Then, when he tried to change the subject and pose as a real economist, the campaign slammed into the side of a technical recession...



Which left him treading water, and sounding even crazier or more desperate.

And still the worst was to come. 

When he tried to pose as a Great Warrior Leader, tried to crank up the Fear Factor, and have us believe us that only he could save us from the terrorists AND the opposition...



Only to have it revealed that neither him nor any of his Con clowns could even save a poor little boy and his family who wanted to come to Canada...



Or for that matter save the lives of any other desperate refugees.

Which at a time when most Canadians are clamouring for action, has left him and his callous Cons looking like a beasts.

Or just spinning their wheels...



And Harper's refusal to change his message, or his talking points, has some like Chantal Hébert wondering whether he's losing it. 

There is a saying in theatre parlance that a bad dress rehearsal foretells a good opening show. Harper’s Conservatives can only hope that it holds true next month. 

Over the past five weeks, the damage wreaked on the Conservative campaign by events beyond its control has so often been compounded by an unwillingness to move past talking points that it begs the question whether this cast is still up to the job it is re-auditioning for.

Or whether he is even still fit to remain in office.

And as if that wasn't bad enough, then there's the state of the Big Blue Machine itself. Which was supposed to crush its opponents under its wheels as it rolled across the country.

But instead has come to resemble a travelling Con clown circus...



Or a comedy of errors.

The Cons are in such a panic they can't get ANYTHING right.

From the salmon to the signs...



And that list doesn't even include their latest gaffe. When they created an Instagram site for Great Leader.

And paid Instagram to force some of his family photos like this one onto the sites of others... 



Only to reap a furious reaction...



And be forced to take immediate action.

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has become the first federal party leader to advertise on Instagram, but many of the comments on his three sponsored posts have disappeared.

Or run for cover.

Just like Great Desperate Leader is going to have to do when the trial of Bruce Carson begins on Sept.14.

And the ghost of corruption past comes back to haunt him...



Which can only tarnish his image further, and make HIM look even more corrupt...



And what I find significant about all of the above, is that all his scandals and all his gaffes, are being amplified to an extraordinary degree by social media.

Which is in turn being amplified by the MSM that is including in its stories a lot of reaction from Twitter.

Where as I have pointed out before, we hold an overwhelming advantage...



And if we have damaged him so much in the last five weeks, imagine what we are going to do to him in the next SIX.

And that's even if he doesn't look out of the window of his bus...



Or look out of the window of his plane...



At this field in a traditional Con riding in Ontario.

Because if he does, considering his present state of mind, all bets are off.

And we're really going to have to wonder whether his disastrous campaign is going to end with a bang, or a whimper.

Or an INTERVENTION...



Which is of course what I have long predicted eh?

We are going to damage him beyond recognition. And enjoy every minute.

But in the end his own madness will be his worst enemy.

And he will destroy himself...

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