It is becoming more-and-more evident that opposition strategists are as incompetent, particularly in the matter of exercising good judgment with respect to timing, as government strategists are at proving themselves competent.

Last Fall in Bali when the world was focused on just about the only issue opposition parties have over the governing Conservatives, climate change, the full force of opposition parties’ attention was applied to the buffoonery offered-up by Misters Mulroney and Schreiber.

Could Mr. Harper have asked for better distraction? Who remembers Mr. Dion’s surprise appearance in Bali? A small percentage, I imagine, Liberal’s especially, who likely experienced some sort of mental climax every time Robert Thibault thought he was asking an earth-shattering question, on CPAC, of either Mr. Schreiber or Mr. Mulroney.

Example No. 2,  I can’t, I simply can’t, do a better job than Rick Mercer summarizing the impression I sense many Canadians are forming about the Liberals under Stéphane Dion. Sorry, but you’re just going to have to watch it for yourself, Mercer: Message from the Liberals.

Quick! The Liberals need a distraction; enter Chuck Cadman.

Will the Chuck Cadman issue effectively serve the Liberals in distracting Canadians from Liberal huffing and puffing that can’t, or won’t, blow a house down? Or, in Liberal zeal to desperately try, again, to change the channel will Mr. Harper be proven correct, when he says ‘Mr. Dion may have committed his worst strategy mistake to date’?

Only time will tell, but clearly, based on the carefully executed libel suit, Mr. Harper still obviously believes there is no better defence than a strong offence. A strategy I generally support.

This observer’s gut still tells me that all things being equal, the Conservative’s polling fortunes won’t be adversely affected, long term, by the Chuck Cadman matter any more than they were affected by the Schreiber/Mulroney affair.

In the meantime a greater percentage of Canadians surely must be wondering if not just the Senate needs abolishing.