Ignatieff - If it quacks like a duck...

The brutal picture of Ignatieff that accompanies the Ottawa Sun article on his recent coalition  announcement.

   I don't know what to make of this mess. 


   A Coalition wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, but now Ignatieff says he'll do one should Harper get a minority government, but refuses to call it a 'coalition'.  But if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... its probably a duck. 

""If Mr. Harper wins most seats, forms a government but does not secure the confidence of the House — and I'm assuming Parliament comes back — then it goes to the Governor General. That's what happens. That's how the rules work."
"And then, if the Governor General wants to call on other parties — myself for example — to try to form a government, then we try to form a government. That's exactly how the rules work. And what I'm trying to say to Canadians is, I understand the rules, I respect the rules, I'll follow them to the letter and I'm not going to form a coalition.


  Seems to me like Ignatieff routinely wavers back and forth, just as on corporate taxes. If he was in favour of a coalition all along, he should have been pressing forth the "it's in the rules" approach since the beginning. Instead, he turtled on this issue and let Harper turn the coalition idea into an anti-democratic bastardization of our political system rather than the epitome of consensus-seeking that politics should strive to fulfill. Ignatieff's poor leadership on this issue, in addition to his weak "well they do it too!" defense of intentionally misquoting Harper in their attack ad just reeks of desperation in my opinion. Seems to me like you can almost feel Ignatieff's campaign circling the toilet boil. 


   The most recent poll numbers seem to support this - Harper has 37.4% support in an April 18th CBC poll, which is very near to the 40% threshold for majority government potentiality.  In contrast, Ignatieff's support has fallen to 24% at the same time that Layton's support has risen to 20%, suggesting that left-wing Liberals are moving towards the NDP for this election.  


 Figure it out Michael.