A Strange Thing to Say

What did Rob Russo think he was saying last week on Politics when he explained the shortness of the Dion-Harper meeting. He said Harper took the "measure of the man" and said "I can beat this guy" and then immediately put his election plans into action. What macho nonsense. Why is not possible that he realized he was going to get nowhere manipulating Dion into his position on Afghanistan, and that as a result he would lose face with his conservative buddies to the south, fail his boss-man Bush and look like a fool at NATO. So rather than fail to deliver on Afghanistan, he switched to plan B, force an election before it became patently clear he couldn't deliver to his buds.