Ontario Liberal Leader Norman Bates has told us that he's going to run a positive campaign. While his grease-ball, slime-bucket, smug-assed, dick-knobbed opponent is launching a muck-throwing ad campaign today, targeting Mr. Bates as an inexperienced loser, Mr. Bates has decided to take the high road and campaign on a decent level.

Okay, so if he won't sling the mud, Pigdump will.

Once upon a time, whilst debating the outcome of the 1995 Mike Harris vs. Bob Rae election with a right-wing dink who was married to a liberal school teacher, I said "If Harris wins, people will die." The dink laughed and sloughed me off as a whiny socialist. A month after the election, I got an email from his wife, the teacher, with the subject header: "People will die." She had just been laid off. The dink was appalled. Well duh, this PC government was about cutting everything and enhancing nothing but Bay Street's numbers.

So nobody really died then. But people died at Walkerton because the PCs stopped paying for those pain in the ass little services like water inspection specialists. Dudley George died at Ipperwash because those pain in the ass bleeding heart natives were protesting. Police shot him down, but who sent the police in? Anyone? Oh ya.

Then under grease-ball's watch, people died of SARS. Slime-bucket wasn't even around to find out what was going on in the richest city in the country. And those poor healthcare workers who had already been worked to the bone by cutback after cutback, by doctors fleeing the province...well, they just had to work harder for their pittance. And some of them died too. While greasy-guts was golfing, or scuba-diving or some damn thing.

But on the positive side, I got a nice little $200 cheque from Mr. Harris. Though I lost a local swimming pool/rec centre and had my city turned into the GTA as the PCs dumped more and more responsibilities on others (welcome to Toronto, Mel Lastman.) Then Slime-ball and Hydro gave me a $75 cheque (though I got a $135 hydro bill in the mail two days later.) Good old Greasy-boy and Hydro, eh? Gotta love the state we're in.

The protesters and investigative journalists from the past would have nailed these frickin' leaders to the wall. Why are we letting them get away with it now? And as for leadership, Norman, you suck. You could jump right in and remind us that these dinks are CEOs, not social leaders... at a time when we need leadership more than ever. But no, the high road is the way to go. Sheesh. Maybe your mother could give you a hand...?