And so it begins

Local Con MPP Lisa McLeod has begun here re-election campaign in the same style as that used by her federal counterparts.  Attacks and character assassination.  In email messages to selected constituents - it seems that not all of them are Lisa-fans - the intrepid Lisa started her invective.  Without acknowledging that she does not understand finance, management, economics or anything connected to common sense, Lisa blames the job losses in Ontario, the high Canadian dollar, Free Trade, federal mismanagement of the banking industry, US and work economic turmoil, tight credit and genital herpes on Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario.

Your shrill message will wear thin soon, Lisa.  Don't waste your ammo this early on.  Otherwise people might start asking you questions, such as:

• When Dell started to lay off 1,100 call centre workers in Ottawa, you demanded an economic stimulus package, while at the same time calling the Liberal tax and spend.  Isn't that a bit contradictory?

• You slammed the government of Ontario for their funding of a crack pipe program in Ottawa when the city had decided not to fund it because it was a health issue not a municipal one.   You called the government's intrusion a "slippery slope to Big Brother".  But when the real Big Brother, Con Screamer Baird, interfered with the Ottawa N/S LRT project and leaked confidential contract information to the press, what did you have to say about it?  Nada, Nyet, Nothing.  And it was not as if it was a non-issue for constituents.  Your act of ignorance -  and that of your boss at the time, the fabulous Pefect PP - will leave the south Ottawa community of Barrhaven without LRT for at least the next 20 years.  Thanks Lisa.

• In 2006, you demanded the Ontario government eliminate the health care premium calling it a tax grab.  That $2.1 billion program helped to erase the $5.8 billion deficit left by your party as they fled Queen's Park.  It also helped keep the province out of deficit until now.

The teeth are bared and the finger nails are sharpened.  The rhetoric is being ratched up and the attack is about to begin in earnest.  Lisa is on the move.

God help us all.