Tory's "Running on Vapours"

... The Tory's are running on vapours because Mr. Harper has sacrificed the conservative economic principles which have guided his life and career, in exchange for the half-hearted support of those indifferent to anything beyond their own apparent advantage.
... He knows that the Liberals are mostly a memory at this point, and that he has become a sufficiently clever, compromised player of games to remain PM for as long as he likes, but he and his supporters now realise that he will never have the courage to become the leader that he could have been...