In my previous post I asked an MP to go off their rocker. It seems that Mike Brock has tempted his commentors to lose it instead. Should Opposition Leader Harper be replaced? That is the question that Mike poses.
By the way, my vote is no. Keep him.
Update: The Toronto Sun argues the point as well as it can be done. (Hat-tip NealeNews)
Stephen Harper's Conservatives have two choices.
They can either panic over yesterday's Decima poll showing they now trail Paul Martin's Liberals by 14 points nationally and are only two points ahead of Jack Layton's NDP.
Or they can learn from it.
Panic would mean plotting to dump Harper, which would be stupid, disloyal and unproductive. Likewise, blaming voters -- particularly those in Ontario, where the Conservatives are not only 26 points behind the Liberals, but in third place by two points, behind the NDP -- is pointless.
What this poll -- and remember, it's only one poll -- tells Conservatives, yet again, is that Canadians won't hand them the keys to government simply for calling the Liberals corrupt.
Canadians already know the Liberals are corrupt.
...Ultimately, Harper and the Conservatives must fight the next election based on their own positive vision for the future of Canada and on the things they believe in, not on promising to be like Liberals, only without the corruption. Then they must trust the voters and let the chips fall where they may.
