Harper's Early Election Call May Have More To Do With Couillard's Book Release Than You Expect!
" .... it looks like Couillard is going to use the book to set the record straight and settle more than a few scores. "In this profoundly human autobiography, she responds to the multiple lies, half-truths and speculation that has been written about her over the course of the last few months"
Eliabeth Thompson
The speculation that Stephen Harper is about to pull the plug on his own administration has the hint of panic to it.
So what is it that Harper could be paniced about?
-The In & Out scheme?
-Loss of byelections looming?
-weakening Canadian econcomy?
-the 'dirt' on Bernier / Couillard?
Political pundits know that 'scandals' garner the most public attention when they have to do with love affairs, biker chicks, lost briefs, dinners with the Prime Minister, President Bush and flirty vamps.
If Canadians go to the polls on Tuesday, October 14th, I'm betting that it is an attempt to try and beat their trip to the local book store!
Add in to the mix the Food Inspection fiasco, self-righteous Tony Clement preaching to the doctors, several revisions to the procurement of ships and arctic sovereignty, and the burial of C-484
which was announced by an evangelical named Nicholson yesterday in the National Press Theatre and you have a mini tornado whirling through the PMO and PCO.
Harper is up in the Arctic and I'll bet the press isn't with him.
Talk about cutting and running.
Posted by
Anonymous |
9:24 am, August 26, 2008
The publisher can (and will) pre-release certain salient passages to the media in the middle of the election if that happens. Plus, they'll try to rush the release date, since its relevance and sales potential in the middle of a campaign would be a bonanza. So Harper can't really avoid any bad publicity from it, no matter how quickly he manages to bring on an election.
Posted by
Scott in Montreal |
11:37 am, August 26, 2008