Agreed on Leech.
Here's one of Raj Sherman's tweets:
In his defence though, he was trying to paint BOTH Wildrose and PC as scary.
Not quite what I meant, but sure!
I think that if you want to see where Canadian politics went off the rails, go back to when the federal Liberals began running attack ads against the mysterious hidden agenda of the federal Conservatives. They changed their focus from attacking policy and record to attacking hidden demons that only they could see. And that has continued almost with out break for many years now. Soldiers... with guns... in our streets.
For some, it has gotten to the point of zealotry - e.g.: Bridget Depape. People who are so utterly convinced that the problem with the federal Conservatives, and now Wildrose, isn't that their policy is bad, but that they are, simply,
evil. That, frankly, is ridiculous and damaging to Canadian politics.
Not that people like Hunsperger or Leech help, mind you, but the valid criticism made against them for their comments and valid criticism for Smith's handling of it became invalid attacks made against anyone who supports the same party. e.g.: Sherman's comments above. Strategic voting wasn't argued to ensure a better platform won. It was argued to ensure the evil party lost.