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Ottawa Citizen:

The day the government fell, the demonization of Stephen Harper began in earnest. Again. On March 25, in a radio interview with CBC's As It Happens, Liberal Ralph Goodale blamed the government for not giving Parliament the information it needed to make decisions "on the basis of fact, rather than just political rhetoric." He went on to say, "The prime minister is very much the solitary Darth Vader who works in the dark in the middle of the night and doesn't allow people to get close to him."

Oh no, the Liberals would never stoop to political rhetoric.

Darth Vader? That's so far past ridiculous it's crossing the border into parody; at this rate, soon the Liberals will be using the phrase "reptilian kitten-eater" and they'll be serious.

Apparently, the Liberals didn't learn much from losing the 2006 election, after they warned Canadians that Conservatives wanted "soldiers with guns in our cities." The temptation, when you're running second in the polls, is to scream ever louder and say nastier things. But hyperbole probably won't help and can backfire.

I've had my differences with editorial writer and columnist Kate Heartfield, but she turns in a well-balanced piece on Stephen Harper, warning about the facile attacks on him by his opponents.

That's an argument too subtle for many of the commenters, who doubtless have never heard of Godwin's law, either.