Stephen Harper should stay the course.

As leader of the Conservative Party of Canada this is not the time for you to get cold feet. Continue the courage of your convictions, Sir. You surrounded yourself with brave, forward looking, independent, creative, innovative thinkers and politicians. To find such valueable resources for the PMO and your cabinet you had the courage to ignore the staid, old-fashioned, fuddy-duddy advice of CSIS and the RCMP. Don't throw Bruce Carson under the bus now.

Who cares that Bruce Carson received an 18-month jail sentence in 1983 after he pled guilty to forging cheques and stealing $23,900 from a corporation and two other clients that he represented (Allan Woods, Toronto Star.)   Isn't this just the type of creative mindset that we need when approaching the accounting required for reviving an economy?

Think about it. Bruce Carson and I are roughly the same age. If I started courting a beautiful, vivaceous 22-year-old escort my sons and daughters would be around before you could blink and have me bundled off in a straight jacket to a phrenologist and from there to a padded cell. I do not have "edge". Bruce does. He can do something like that and make it look dapper. Sure, tongues will wag, but thousands of men out there are enviously wondering, as I am, "How does he do it? How does he keep it up?" People like Bruce not only bridge the gap between the generations but help those around him to do so as well or, at least, appear to - including Stephen.  This is the "edge" that the Conservative Party needs to widen over its weary, black-suit, same-old, same-old political rivals.

The Conservative Leader has astutely garnered others into The A-Team: Maxime (Playboy) Bernier, Bev (keep 'em guessing) Oda, Helena (Hellhole) Guergis. These are the flashy ones, in the public eye, image is everything. But there are others who deserve our respect. Who's brilliant idea was it to withhold from the Canadian Parliament the cost of building new and bigger prisons to hold all the new prisoners from all the increased crime that is going unreported? That will show Parliament who's boss and at the same time stimulate the economy. Kudos, too, for the man or woman who first came up with the idea of awarding a contract for new F-35 fighter jets with a low-ball cost estimate. This is how you get what you want.

The economy is far too important for us to be distracted by little things like contempt of parliament, peddling influence, lying about departmental recommendations for the long form census, withholding information, falsifying documents and lying about departmental recommendations for Kairos funding, election accounting fraud. On the contrary, we should see these things as signs of strength in adversity. What's a minority government supposed to do when the majority of MPs are against you? Stephen (Win some, lose some) Harper and his A-Team know what's best for us. Don't change now just because you came into power on a "Transparency" ticket. Obviously that was just a brilliant ploy to woo the voters who were sick of The Sponsorship Scandal. After coming into power the Conservatives were able to blow a surplus before the recession even hit. Nobody knows better than they do how to spend money. They surely now know best how to turn a deficit into a surplus so that we can spend even more money.

If Stephen Harper has a problem, if no one else can help, and if he can find them, you know whom he hires. Now is not the time to make risky changes. Stay with the man whose judgement you can trust. Stephen Harper... and the A-Team.