Since before the election I’ve been hearing and reading about the demise of the Liberal Dinosaur. Apparently a comet containing financial and moral bankruptcy has lit up the skies over Canada and is about to descend into the ranks of LPC members and supporters, annihilating them all. Perhaps we’ll see them in the museums of the future; little boys and girls will have small plastic LPC figurines on their windowsills. Movies will be made with computer animated LPC members chasing down fleeing explorers in jeeps.
Folks we’ve seen this time and time again in Canada, people getting cocky, for various reasons when their political party dominates other political parties. It’s the ups and downs of a cycle.
And what always happens? Parties get cocky, arrogant, and complacent. Then the other parties walk up and knock them on their asses.
I get the horrible feeling that the CPC will be entering a stage of arrogance, one which may sow the seeds of their own defeat.
The LPC is not dead. They will regroup, reorganize and do whatever is necessary to make a comeback in the later rounds. Do not write them off, do not get complacent.
The CPC needs to stay lean and hungry if the want to dominate politics in Canada for the foreseeable future. Eye of the Tiger man, eye of the tiger.