Surreal

If we needed a late-campaign reminder of just how little interest the Cons have in basing their politics on anything resembling reality, the story about Axel Kuhn's flier bashing Boris Wrzesnewskyj.

After a year of the Libs propping up the Cons' government through abstentions and absences, and in the middle of a campaign where the Absent Liberals theme has found its way into the public eye, it surely couldn't have been anything but the simplest of tasks to assemble examples of Wrzesnewskyj's non-appearances which would have been soundly based in fact. But that wasn't good enough for Kuhn's campaign, who apparently found the need to start inventing committee assignments (and in one case a committee which doesn't actually exist) in order to try to smear Wrzesnewskyj.

Needless to say, the fact that the Cons have no qualms about basing a campaign on obvious fictions even when the facts could have supported their argument offers yet another reason not to take them at face value at any other time. And perhaps more than anything else, that complete disdain for objective reality offers the strongest reason why it's long past time to make sure Harper and company are removed from any position to make decisions which will affect the lives of Canadians.