More thought on Emerson

Please tell me it's a bad dream. That and the unelected senator/party hack being selected to cabinet.

Or better yet, tell me it's part of a master plan that I haven't seen yet. Because I don't want to have endured 8 weeks of campaign garbage and boundless anxiety and stress and paid my dues as a volunteer and reasoned with die-hard liberals, just to have Harper do something we'd expect from him or him or him.

Please tell me that Emerson is going to have to go through a byelection (but if so, I feel sorry for the residents of Vancouver-Kingsway). Please tell me that Fortier is just going to kick ass, take (Lib scammer) names, and get the hell out of there within a year. Please tell me that Emerson isn't actually becoming a Conservative--that he'll still sit as a Liberal but be in cabinet--a rare thing to do, but not illegal or impossible.

Or hell, just go to the press tomorrow and take it back, telling us that doing so was an ill-informed decision.

Whatever it is, something (hope, maybe) tells me that this isn't the end of this, that Harper is going to show us why doing this was all part of a greater plan. Why it had to happen this way, and that all is not as it seems.

Something tells me. I just hope that something is right.

Otherwise, we might see this come back, and him as our next small-c conservative Prime Minister.