As goes California, so goes the nation -- the nation in the normal scheme of things being what the world knows as the Good Ole U.S.A.
For many practical reasons that all of us instinctively understand up here north of the 49th Parallel, and even in those parts of Canada south of the 49th, as goes California, so goes Canada too.
I refer, of course, to the steep downward spiral in which the Republican Party finds itself in that large and populous West Coast state -- a place big enough to be a leading nation all on its own and home, arguably to the American image, if not the American soul.
In the Republicans' troubles in California, it is said here, we see a reflection of the coming decline of Canada's Conservatives under Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
