When the court decides against her, it may well take her repeatedly expressed support for the Liberals into account. We’ll never know – courts aren’t always explicit about the factors influencing their decisions.

Playing footsie with Dion gained her party absolutely jack-squat. And it may have cost her the chance to participate in the debate.

I repeat: She did this to herself. Now, she will spend thousands of dollars of other peoples’ money trying to fix the mess she created. Everyone who wrote a cheque to the Green Party thinking they were buying some smart lawyers their 2009 summer vacations, raise your hand.

Sending this to Jack Layton:

I’d just like to say as a voter who has supported the NDP in the past I was both astonished and embarrassed to read in the paper this morning that Mr. Jack Layton was one of the conspirators who refused to participate in the televised debates if Elizabeth May of the Green Party had been invited.

However you choose to spin it, this is nothing but a simple act of cowardice. I guess I was wrong to expect better of you and the NDP. Good luck with the campaign, but you just lost another voter to the Greens. You squandered whatever opportunity you had to retain my vote when you slapped democracy in the face by threatening to take your ball and go home.

Okay, everyone talks about “the Consortium” like they are a secret society…who exactly are the “Constortium” and who BY NAME make the decision?

I disagree with Elizabeth May’s decision to sit, as the Green Party’s first MP, an ex-Liberal MP who was booted from the Liberal caucus for campaign spending irregularities. However, I think she deserves a spot at the debating podium because nearly 700,000 people voted Green in the last election and, if polling results over these past few months translate into pro votes at the ballot box, the Greens should near, and perhaps surpass, the one million mark. Hundreds of thousdands of Canadians, who care enough about the environment and the future to vote for something other than the mainstream parties, deserve a spot at that podium through Elizabeth May.

I suspect the biggest reason that Tubby objected to having her there is because his charisma-challenged “school monitor” personality would have taken a drubbing in the unforgiving glare of public television once feisty Elizabeth’s sharp tongue got going. By the way, the other three deserve to be condemned too for not having the decency to take a stand and side with May in this matter. Paint Tubby (who is reputed to be rather thin-skinned) into a corner and we’d see the real Harper emerge.