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respected, selected, call collected
i wanna be elected, elected

-- alice cooper

Canada goes to the polls on Monday, and I know everyone is waiting with bated breath for my predictions. This is, after all, a political blog -- or at least it was, until I realized I was lousy at writing about politics.

This was my brave call on April 7:

Steve Harper just might be the guy who tips undecided Ontario voters over the edge.

Er, that was my brave call on April 7 of 1996, in a FidoNet (ask your parents, kiddies) political echo. The talk at the time was of the prospective merger of the Progressive Conservatives and the Reform Party, and who should lead it.

That didn't take place until October of last year, but I seem to have been prescient in my call for Stephen Harper to lead the new Conservative Party.

Without going into all the details, this represents the best chance in a generation to kick the tired, corrupt Liberals to the curb.

Unfortunately I don't think they can quite finish them off this time, and I see at best a Conservative minority government.

But even that will give the Conservatives the opening to send in the auditors; and I think they'll be able to dig up enough dirt to bury the Liberals for a long, long time.