With the greatest of respect, the insanity of the conspiracies being offered here by sime of the usual suspects detracts from the exceptional perspectives you and oyhers have offered.

It’s sad to see the unfortunate and disappointing election outcome degenrate into which disaffected NDP nutter can come up with the most ridiculous and far fetched scenario.

The real heart of the NDP have taken this in stride and understand where the mistakes were made. The recriminations are counterpeoductive and mindless.

Frankly, if you want to have a useful retrospective, kick Jenny Kwan out of your party, as I can assure you, even with the same strategy, Carole would have made Christy look like an amateur and their would have been no idiotic Kinder Morgan reversal, in aid of satisfying phantom environmental catastrophes.

Then Topp can return to the fold and carry on………

Topp is a “out of towner.” And will happily trek back to Ottawa, as are many of what Tom Fletcher and the Natives call “Seal Team 6″ and no doubt they will slip back into their black operative back rooms.

Its almost as if they are laying bait with stuff like the Topp Kool and Guy stuff don’t ya think? I mean even the name is a way over the Topp! Right? Remember all we saw was a news story and a one page website. That kinda thing these guys can throw together in about 15 minutes.

There is much more to this story, including the ties to Hill and Knowlton who brought you the first Iraq war courtesy of the Embassador’s daughter and her claims of incubator babies being, well you remember ” the narrative.” And that too was allowed and hung right out there for everyone, even W5 ran a story, you know what I mean?

The bottom line is this “loss” was choreographed perfectly the NDP bolstered the overall narrative with every step, it was a like a beautiful dance.

If Topp is anything, he is consistent. He has ran two campaigns, both had the same effect. We lost and the oilers got their majority.

His leadership campaign fractured the left in the party and Hill and Knowlton errrr , Lavigne stick handled the DDOS attack on the internet vote into oblivion.

Next up for Topp was pulling the teeth of the NDP by removing “state owned enterprise” from the constitution, so even if, by some strange bizarre fluke, the NDP found itself a power lever, they would be without capacity to pull it. Could be one day that the oilers have to deliver change given the scandalous and atrocious record of the Harper crowd.

Then it was off to BC to cash in the rest of his political credibility with the NDP and drive Jacks campaign bus into the ditch with Dix in it. Hill and Knowlton cut the break line and Lavigne and Rutkowski where there to ensure the thing went right off the cliff.

Its that kinda handy work that gets ya a job with the “ethical oilers” and your name on the shingle. Me thinks.

As we see the post mortem messaging and the new mandate missives, as well as all the bit players chiming in making sense of it all. Its enough to make you puke.

If this were the United States, Mr. Topp, Ms. Clark, Mr. Boessenkool, his consultancy partners, the Manning Centre and the Liberal Executive council would, in all likelihood, be facing some very serious jail time under the RICO statutes which were enacted to for anti-racketeering purposes. But, alas, we have no such corrective measures and certainly no regulatory agencies or police forces uncompromised enough to take on and prosecute such an investigation. Indeed, with Chuck Strahl’s connections to the CSIS oversight committee, I wonder what additional assistance may have been brought into this election scam.

I do have to grudgingly acknowledge how well executed this plan was and still is. Everyone’s focused on “incompetence” and the “mistakes” that were made when I would argue quite the opposite: this team of thieves executed their roles perfectly, pulling off the heist of the century and using sleight of hand to keep everyone from looking at the criminal nature of this scam. But after all, they’ve stolen everything else in this province – what’s another election or two?

Brilliant game as usual Ian! Must be a scoring record for the number of comments. I don’t think it’s unsportsmanlike to run the score up in this situation.