Has It Finally Started?

Needless to say, the phony election war is over, all parties are down to the short strokes and there is no room for error, said the Liberal, who pointed out that the capacity to adjust slippage is becoming more minimal each day. (link)

This is the worst hyped "going neg" prediction of the campaign . . . Everyone knew at the beginning of this campaign that the Liberals would at some point say that Harper was the demon spawn of hell. Everyone knew that the Liberalismos would flood the airwaves with Tory-Hating propaganda on Jan 2. Everyone knew that the media would turn sour against Harper at some point. This was going to be the most negative campaign in Canadian Electorial history. "Going neg" was a foregone conclusion.

What do we have to show for it on Jan 9? Bupkis.

Despite this, everyone is still saying that the gates of hell are about to unleashed on us all and soon, because the Liberals are in a seering desperate panick. And with fear comes irrational desperate measures in politics. And with poll numbers like these, it still makes little sense for the Liberals to be anything but going insane at this point.

But what happens if Friday comes around, and yet no major negative assaults have been launched at the Harper Tories?

Some say that the Tory ad last week warning that the Liberals were about to go "neg", effectively did two things: inoculate the Tories against the Liberals going "neg", and put the Liberals in a precarious situation of either going "neg" and proving the Tories right, or not going "neg" in order to avoid it.

Others have even suggested that the Liberals can't afford any new ads because they can't raise any money and are heavily in debt.

When will this darn thing start already? When will they finally do it? Liberals are getting antsy, but so the heck are Harperites such as myself... This is like knowing someone's gonna pistol wip you, but they never do, and although you know it's about to happen and you get unwelcome assurances that it is coming, it's like a strange taunting thing because it still hasn't happened. I'm almost afraid to open my eyes to look around, fearing that it is mainly a sense of false security!