Well, this -
With Day's departure, the Harper government can't count on quite as much enthusiasm from this wing of the party during the next election campaign. Day could probably win the Conservative leadership if he is still interested in becoming prime minister—particularly if the Harper government goes down to defeat in a spring vote.
Day can't keep his mouth shut and he's...how shall I put this?...a moron. And a fundamentalist religious nutbag moron to boot. He has less subtlety than a chunk of quartz and can't fool 1/3 of Canadians into believing he is anywhere near moderate. When he opens his mouth, we see the reformatards in all their dizzying crazy.
Maybe he could make Talks-with-angels-Clement his deputy.
If he runs, that will cause a fair bit of infighting in a party that is only held together by stevie's threats and promises of what he will allow them to do if he ever gets that fleeting majority, which is looking less and less likely.
I especially like this bit of speculation:
Day has often described himself as a fiscal conservative. This is despite being a cabinet minister in a government that has posted record deficits. By leaving now, he may be trying to create some distance between himself and his colleagues in advance of the upcoming budget.
As Treasury Board Minister, he should have a fair bit of knowledge on what the budget holds, so if he's wanting to distance himself from it, this may be a budget that will not sit well with fiscal conservatives. Not sure how much difference this will make in an election this time around because the far right has nowhere else to go, but such a budget could cause more problems with the CPC and lead to more than talk about a reform-type group starting up and bleeding off some conservative support.
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