Political Staples

'Cause Elizabeth May has gone and thrown her party under the bus, er train.

...before her train from Vancouver pulled into Toronto last night, she called for a form of strategic voting, which she feared might get her in a moose-size mess of trouble with her own party.
May urged Canadians to do all they can to throw Prime Minister Stephen Harper out of office, including strongly suggesting they shouldn't vote Green if another candidate has a better chance at defeating a Conservative.
"We are too close to the edge of a global apocalypse," May said in an interview. "We have got to grab the opportunities we have. And, clearly, the contribution Canadians can make to a global solution is to get rid of Stephen Harper."
May insists she's not calling for strategic voting because that leads people to simply vote Liberal. She wants Canadians to examine their riding and figure out how best to keep the Tories from winning.

First of all, not even the IPCC believes in apocalyptic global warming anymore but I don't want to go there. More important to this campaign is that anyone who was paying attention knew this day would come. Elizabeth May has always been "Think Twice" first and Green Party second. She has done a wonderful job in getting the Greens attention on the national scene but now she could let all those gains go to waste. But the Greens knew what they were getting, a movement leader not a party leader, when they install her as their flag waver.

...So determined is May to keep Harper from power she also told the Star she wants Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion and NDP Leader Jack Layton to join her in a pact to beat Conservatives candidates.
The Green, Liberal and New Democratic parties should prevent vote-splitting that would favour Conservatives, and carve up electoral ridings according to who has the best chance of winning, May said. "We sit down and say, `Who has the best chance of winning in all these ridings?' What I've been calling for is proportional representation by other means."

The obvious question is, what about Quebc? Is she going to pull a Buzz and suggest people vote the Bloc Quebecois, a separatist party, to stop a federalist party from being elected?