Does Senator Larry Campbell possess a crystal ball?

You have to hand it to Liberal Senator Larry Campbell.

When he gets it wrong, he gets it spectacularly wrong, but he never stops telling you what he thinks. In local political races, he nearly always backs the wrong horse and winds up looking plain daft.

But get the former Vancouver mayor talking about federal Conservatives, and Campbell suddenly talks and acts like he’s in possession of a crystal ball and psychic powers.

In the 2004 federal race, Campbell predicted that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives—then mired in oppositional second-banana anonymity—were “the barbarians at the gates”. He was vindicated, in hindsight, and added recently: “Now they’re inside.”

To boot—given his feelings toward the Blue Machine—Campbell had this to say on why he endorsed federal-Conservative-supporting Kevin Falcon, now B.C.’s minister of finance, when he ran for the B.C. Liberal leadership.

“But I don’t see him as a total Con,” Campbell said at the time. “There are total Cons. I mean, that Bennett up in the Interior is totally there, and now you’re going to get [B.C. Conservative leader-in-waiting John] Cummins, so you’re going to see real Cons.”

Cummins has since enraged Straight columnist Dan Savage, of Savage Love fame, of course, with his comments on homosexuality. Savage has now publicly invited Cummins to perform fellatio on him in order to show once and for all that being gay is a conscious lifestyle choice and, ergo, performing a gay sex act will prove that Cummins (I’m sure he now wants to change his last name) can make that “choice”.

Tell me Campbell didn’t spit his coffee when he saw that one, although, hopefully, it didn’t wind up all over his crystal ball.

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monty/that's me

May 27, 2011 at 9:59am

Any way you look at it Larry Campbell is a tool--available to anyone who wants to be his honey. As for poor old John Cummins--he's a walking disaster who railed about the fishing industry and was so terrific it's has almost disappeared. A great pair of toadies.

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glen p robbins

May 29, 2011 at 4:27pm

Here's a crystal ball 4 ya - Cummins is a problem for the BC Liberals--

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