Consider this your War Room Warning, as it were. In next week’s Hill Times column. 

  

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• Nuttier than a fruit cake. Nuttier than a Tim’s Maple Log. Nuttier than a port-a-potty at a peanut festival. Nuttier than a Trump-Palin ticket. NUTTY. 
• That’s how nutty this election is. Every party has had a crazy things being said by crazy candidates or crazy staffers. That’s happened in the past. But the number of bimbo eruptions in his one? I’ve never seen anything like it. 
• It isn’t the fault of social media. Social media simply provides a platform for crazy people to say crazy things – and for campaign war rooms, or the media, to thereafter publicize the craziness.
• It’s been nutty in past campaigns, as noted. But the sheer volume of insanity and inanity in this year’s model simply dwarfs everything that has gone before it, I think.
• Check this out. This summary doesn’t even capture them all! Just this morning, a Liberal candidate in Surrey (reminding us all the nuts roll to the corners) said:

  

• What is going on? All of the parties have so-called “green light” committees – believe me, I know (one was used to actually “green light” the likes of Eve Adams – and torpedo actual Liberal leadership candidates like David Bertschi and Deborah Coyne). So, how did all of those green lighting geniuses miss this stuff?
• Your guess is as good as mine. But I’ll tell you one thing – if the parties are wondering why none of them can break through, maybe the serial idiocy that is Election 2015 is a big part of it. Like I say, it’s nutty. 

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• The popular consensus seems to be the CPC is doing badly. Candidate controversies, refugee backlash, dropping to third place, and now unhelpful stories like this. It is not a particularly happy time for Conservatives.
• Could they actually be losing? It almost seems surreal, doesn’t it? For the past decade, Harper and his team have absolutely dominated the political landscape. They have always seemed to be the ones who were most strategic and savvy. They have always seemed to be one step ahead of everyone else. Some days, it felt like they were going to be in power forever, didn’t it?
• But a handful of polls don’t necessarily lie. Something is pulling down their campaign, gradually but undeniably.  You can feel it.
• It isn’t just the refugee crisis or the candidate stuff. In an era of perpetual war, we will always have refugee crises (the Syrian one, which many folks have just noticed, has been going on for half a decade). And in the era of social media, we will always have political aspirants saying and doing stupid things – in every political party.
• So what is it? Simple: when you’ve been there a decade, voters start looking around for an alternative. In any democracy, they feel that 10 years is enough time to be running things. Voters start talking about the need for change, because they feel change is good. 
• There are exceptions to that rule, of course. There is the most recent win by the Ontario Liberals. The one that Christy Clark won. There is the final win by Justin Trudeau’s father. Those majority victories, and others,  defied the 10 year “rule.”
• But. But, were those situations where Grits actually won? Or, as some say, were they more accurately occasions where the Tories, per the cliche, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory?
• Bottom line: Whatever you may think of him, you have to agree that Stephen Harper is no Joe Clark or Tim Hudak. And that, if campaign experience, campaign money, and campaign discipline count – and they do – only a fool would start crowing (as some of my commenters are now doing) that the Cons are dead.
• They ain’t dead yet. Because – as everyone agrees – the real campaign is just starting.

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You want your kids learning about sex from ThePornDude.com or HardSexTube.com or SpankWire.com? Me neither. And there’s a good reason for that.

Yeah, because it’s better that kids learn about healthy sexual attitudes on the Internet. Gotcha. #onpoli http://t.co/5V1X4vNwkh

— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 8, 2015

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…I met the guy on the left, there, Ras Pierre Schenk. He’d go on to become my best friend, among other things (eg., we were the biker-jacketed John and Paul of the pop-punk powerhouse that was The Hot Nasties, among them).

Forty years! We were both leaning on the wall near the doors St. Bonaventure Junior High in Southeast Calgary one sunny morning in September 1975, and Pierre turned to me.

“Hey kid,” he said.

I looked at him.

“What’s your name?” he asked.

I was reasonably certain he was going to punch me in the face, so I said: “Warren.”

“Mine’s Peter, but my friends call me Pierre,” he said.

So, I started calling him Pierre. And that was that, on the first day of school, forty years ago. Of first days of school, great things are sometimes made.

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• The pre-season is over. The phony season is over. Now the game begins.
• What’s the lay of the land? Well, all the parties have problems. All of them have opportunities. There’s good and bad.
• For the New Democrats, they’re still really strong in Quebec. They’re strong in BC. That’s the good news. The bad news is that they are slipping, pretty much everywhere.
• For the Liberals, they’ve moved up in important places like Ontario. They’re doing well. But the bad news is that they are still far, far behind in Trudeau’s home province. And he can’t win without Quebec. He can’t.
• For the Conservatives, they’ve had a bad, bad run – Duffy, refugees, crazy candidates. People seem to want change. But they stil are holding onto their 30 per cent core. It’s rock solid. But it ain’t enough.
• What do you think, O Reader? Are big changes afoot? Who is winning? Who is losing? Why?

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A day that includes mea culpas about jokes about ejaculation, erections, and multiple uses of the word “retard” – along with a plumber who pee-pees in coffee mugs. 

At least my pal Tory Kory (and whoever came up with this) has a sense of humour about it all. 

  

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This true? 

If so, watch out!

(Seriously: in the US, you could run an entire election campaign on a slip-up like this.)

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• Take that, Messrs. Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau! I’m in your rear view mirror, now!

  

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