Telling

One might think that facing the strongest challenge his party has faced from a national party in over a decade, Gilles Duceppe would develop at least some substantive argument against the party involved.

But one would be wrong.

In fact, Duceppe is only reinforcing the positive aspects of Jack Layton and the NDP while trying to make a flawed strategic voting argument. And it's not hard to see how that content-free response might make it all the easier for the NDP to turn its current popularity into an even bigger breakthrough than already seems possible.