The RCMP and Elections Canada serving a warrant on the Federal Conservative Party this week has unleashed reactions that have jumped the shark from Conservatives. The blame game is amazing and is meant to point away from the bad optics. The Globe and Mail Blogolitics looks at the spin Conservatives have put on this incident.

With his talking points in hand, Mr. Anonymous makes the media rounds.

— The Canadian Press: A Conservative party official, speaking on condition of anonymity, later called the raid “a PR stunt” and “an intimidation tactic” aimed at deflecting attention from Elections Canada’s weak case against the party.

— The Globe and Mail: “They may be scared of their case in court,” said the Conservative official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “The Conservative Party sees this as a PR stunt and a tactic of intimidation.”

— The Toronto Star: A raid by the RCMP on Conservative party headquarters is a “PR stunt” by Elections Canada intended “to intimidate” the governing party in a civil court case, the Tory party says … The party insider, speaking on condition he not be identified …

— CBC’s The National: Tonight, a senior Conservative source offered a different explanation: Saying this was a publicity stunt …

Scott Tribe looks at a conservative bloggers theories. The Liberals were happy to explain how one of their camera people showed up with media. Perhaps The Green Party or The Bloq or the NDP had camera people available also, the warrant took three days to execute.

Dred Tory has trouble cataloguing  all the spinning in Omnibus Post: “O Tempora, O Morons!

Benoit Corbeil the top Quebec liberal organizer and director who testified at The Gomery Inquiry was arrested for defrauding the Liberal Party between 1999 and 2001. He has been charged with:

…fraud, conspiracy to defraud and exercise of influence for alleged criminal offences against the Liberal party and the federal government between 1997 and 2000.

One of the allegations against Corbeil is that he conspired to defraud the party of more than $100,000 between 1999 and 2000 by authorizing payment of false invoices.