And then she goes and spoils it all...

By saying something stupid like "Dion is magnificent".

The Green party support doubled since the Liberals started positioning environment and climate change as nation's top priority. This was the greatest gift the Green party could ever dream of. A major opposition party was advertising their platform for them. Dion's obsession with environment encouraged many to throw their support behind a party that has been campaigning to make environment the key issue for some 20 years. Some polls showed the Green party support at 11-12%, ahead of the Bloc and nearly catching up with the NDP. If the election took place now, the party could look forward to elect its first MPs; maybe as many as 12 of them, which would give the Green party the official status in the House of Commons.

But then Elizabeth May says that Stephan Dion could do the job better than her. Why? Was it just a mistake, when an attempt to criticize John Baird by showing him how great was his predecessor eventually backfired at the Green party itself by making it look irrelevant? Or was it done on purpose, to prevent the Green party from splitting the Liberal and the NDP vote? Is Elizabeth May deliberately sacrificing her party just because she believes Dion is better than Harper?

Either way, her statements could easily ruin what seemed like a good start for the Green party. The same people, who decided that if environment is that important then they'd rather support the original environmentalist party, may now decide that if Dion is so good for the environment then there's no real need to support the Greens. Supporting the Liberals would do just fine, let alone that a vote for the Liberals is usually much more efficient than a vote for the Green party. One of the former Green party candidates in Vancouver has already decided that a Liberal nomination is much more promising. As the party leader moves away from the plan to elect the first Green MPs, calling for strategic voting instead, we may see some more Green candidates abandoning the party.