Now they're pulling straws from the manure pile

Coincidence?

This is looking like a new and unbelievably low talking point being flung around by the Conservatives as they try to defend themselves in the Cadman bribery scandal.

Dona Cadman's campaign manager, Bill Zemianski, had this to say in reference to Chuck Cadman's state of mind just before he died and during the attempt to allegedly buy his vote: (Video)

Mr. Cadman was under a lot of medication. He was dying and very often very irrational. But there often was a lot of stress.

Via Kady we learn that at about the same time CTV's Mike Duffy was interviewing Jodi Cadman and this happened: (Video)

DUFFY: "You don't think there's any possibility that your dad, with pain medication and whatever, somehow might have been a little fuzzy-minded at the time he told you the story?"

JODI CADMAN: "I think that's a valid question, um, I have to say no because he told my mother the same thing. We were not all in the same room, these happened on different occasions. He even spoke to my husband about it afterwards. I wasn't in the room at all, so there's three different occasions, three different people, the same story told."

The idea was quickly debunked by Simon Fraser University political science professor , Paddy Smith, as being terribly late in the game and not congruous with Chuck Cadman's apparent state of mind in the days leading up to the confidence vote.

That same talking point is starting to appear in the comments section of "Canada's Best Blogger". (No. I'm not linking to it.)

By the way, when you go to the link to Kady, read the bottom of that post.