Stephen Taylor came up with a post trying to claim because the Liberals have some social conservatives in their caucus (GASP! What a revelation!), somehow that makes the Liberals and Dion hypocrites on abortion. As Red Tory says:

Last time I checked, I don’t believe there was any requirement for members to fall into lock-step with the leader on this controversial issue and it’s fair to say that Dion’s position is entirely representative of the vast majority of the caucus.

It’s rather interesting to me that one rather innocuous sounding statement from Dion in answer to 1 question on that issue (dealing with Bill C-484, Ken Epp’s private member’s bill) in the broader 66 minute town hall at Halton where most of the questions were on the Green Shift and the environment has sent certain Conservative supporters scurrying around either trying to attack Dion, or else reassuring their readers what Harper has said on the issue (which isn’t much, at least not about his personal views on the topic).

You’d think they were afraid of being painted as being out of touch with the majority of Canadian opinion or something.

Bit:

David Akin has done a pretty good investigative piece on the KLR Vu Guelph poll that caused some interest and controversy a couple of days ago when it was released. I’ll note here as I did over there at David’s site that I did send an email to the polling firm asking them how many of the 3396 respondents they polled refused to answer or hung up. I’ve yet to receive an answer back from the firm.

Byte:

I was told by StageLeft that he had heard on Ottawa Radio CFRA this AM a Conservative-sympathetic host responding to Stephane Dion challenging Harper to state what his views on abortion were in this manner: Dion was trying to change the channel because he was “desperate” not to talk about the Green Shift.

What nonsense.

Let me remind those CFRA folks that this question came up during Garth Turner and Dion’s 66 minute town hall meeting which almost exclusively talked about the Green Shift - Dion is certainly not trying to run from that policy. Here’s the video. You’ll need to watch the video for a time before the question comes up - it was one floor question out of many there on the Green Shift:

The only one trying to change the channel here is the Conservatives and supporters like CFRA radio, for not wanting to discuss a very touchy topic for them - since they know Harper’s opinion is likely not within the mainstream of current Canadian opinion. Some brave leader, as Red Tory says.

UPDATE: Nice post over here by Jeff. Apparently the Cambridge Times thinks Gloria’s already gotten elected in the Guelph riding. Yeesh. I hope that isn’t a sign of how objective they normally are.