Unbelievable. The guy has six left feet and every one of them are in his mouth.

Unbelievable.

Yesterday John Tory accused teachers and school boards in Ontario of rigging the provincial test scores.

What an extraordinary thing for him to say. With not one shred of proof, not one iota of evidence, he has just called everyone in education a bunch of lying, test-rigging cheats.

This nice man, who promised us he was different? Mike Harris' soul mate. Both are mean, dismissive and clearly ready at a moment's notice to kick the crap out of teachers and school boards.

But that was yesterday. Today, as an encore, Tory announces that teaching creationism is just fine and he sees nothing wrong with it. The thought that someone running to be premier of this province can't tell the difference between faith and science is sending shudders across the province. John Tory channelling Stockwell Day. Do you believe it?

Interesting piece in the National Pisser by James Cowan. He notes the Liberal annoucement about a February holiday rained all over Tory's campaing kickoff parade. Cowan called Tory's office to try and get clear whether or not he would declare the holiday if he was elected instead of McGuinty. The interesting quote Cowan uses is this, from Tory staffer Ingrid Thompson, who declared: “It’s always nice to seem like you’re giving candy to the voter, but it needs to be considered and thought through in terms of what its impact might be before anything is firmly decided.”

Ingrid, you're dead right and before your boss declares every teacher a lying cheat and before he decides creationism is the new truth, and before he decides to pitch education into turmoil by funding private religious schools, you might remind him that "it needs to be considered and thought through in terms of what its impact might be before anything is firmly decided.”

The challenge for the Tories in this election is clearly how to keep their leader's foot out of his mouth. It's rapidly becoming obvious that Tory has several fatal flaws - he can't read a room, he has no idea what impact his policies have and he speaks before he thinks, all of which makes him a fatal choice for the province.

We've seen this trait emerge before, which is even more scary because it means he hasn't learned over time. John Tory was the guy who decided there was nothing wrong with ads that made fun of Jean Chretian's face during Kim Campbell's ill-fated election. John Tory was the mayoralty candidate who came down hard on the side of expanding police powers and pouring massive amounts into their budget in the Toronto civic election three and a half years ago.

Some people should never come out of the back rooms, no matter how desperate their party is for a leader. John Tory may have been great in the back rooms but thus far he's a friggin disaster as a candidate.

If I was running Kathleen Wynne's campaign I'd send her home to relax. The way Tory's going, his own party may repudiate him before the voters even get a chance.

If I was running Tim Hudak's leadership group, I'd be saying "get ready to ramp up boys, it won't be long now."