Stephen Harper - Be not too anxious for an election

Surprise, surprise, but it appears that the Conservative party's slavering over the prospect of power might just be making a few "swing" voters uneasy.

To me, this is positively fascinating - the numbers from the poll are pretty much a dead reflection of the last federal election - the Conservatives and Liberals more or less at a tie. The only interesting change appears to be some gains for the NDP and Green Party.

Given some of the comments that I have heard from the Conservative Party MPs - such as Jason Kenney - make it clear that they are positively salivating over the prospect of winning an election, a poll or two that suggest that the Conservative Party is not gaining a lot of credibility as a result of the Liberal Party's problems.

Some of the attitude coming from the Conservatives suggests to me that they want to _RULE_, not _GOVERN_. Given the fact that Jason Kenney in particular has made it painfully clear that he is either unwilling, or unable, to deal with those that question his views, I suspect that they lust after power, and once there will make the worst excesses of either Pierre Trudeau or Brian Mulroney look like a pair of schoolboys. The fact that Jason Kenney's office cannot even be bothered to acknowledge correspondence from a resident of the constituency, I can only surmise that the man is wilfully ignoring the correspondence. Even Ralph Klein's office will at least acknowledge correspondence - and Klein is among the most arrogant of politicians.

Add to this, running around in the background of the Conservative Party is a sizable number of "Theo-Conservatives" - people like Ted Byfield who believe that Stephen Harper owes them a debt of some sort, and will come demanding payment around about the time that Mr. Harper looks like he will become the Prime Minister of this country. I have yet to see anything that convinces me that the party has moderated the influence of these people.