We cats have been waiting for the name of the notorious Lynton Crosby to surface in the Canadian election post-mortems and, interestingly, have yet to see it much. He's the Lee-Atwateresque Australian whom Stephen Harper imported last month to help him win an unprecedented fourth term as Prime Minister. But happily, nearly all of Canada threw up over the Harper-Crosby hatemongering.
And now, we've stumbled upon a little news nugget we hadn't seen before: Crosby ditched Harperman just days before Canadians went to the polls. Seeing that voters were rejecting his divisive tactics and were getting ready to give the Liberals a huge win, he turned tail and ran — even going so far as to start a Twitter hashtag: #notincanada. Well, what do you expect from people like that? Loyalty, integrity, fortitude? Nah.
So only a few months after Crosby helped David Cameron pull off an ugly win in the UK, his tactics have not only spectacularly failed in Canada but, ironically, may have given a Western left-leaning party its biggest victory since Tony Blair's landslide in 1997.
And just to add insult to injury, there's this: From what we're seeing of the final results — including this very informative set of maps on vote-change percentages across the country — Harper destroyed whatever vestige of respectability he had left, fomenting hate in a country that frowns upon hate, for just a 0.2% Tory increase in a single province. Zero-point-two, gang. We cats call that a bad investment. And it makes us PURR.
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