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Middlebrow bingocaller Peter Kent’s run for the Conservatives in the St. Paul’s riding has prompted one anonymous supporter to launch the Carolyn Bennett Watch, ridiculing the efforts of the physician MP to discredit her finely-coiffed rival. Last week, Kent mounted a Big Tent of supporters that included a few noted Liberal supporters. But a press release from Bennett pointed out that one of those names, Senator Jerry Grafstein, has four large Liberal signs on his lawn; and a former riding association member touted as a fresh defector to the Kent cause actually bailed out around the time of the last election. Bennett Watch reports on sightings of the incumbent ranting, pouting and frowning at various events in the vicinity of Forest Hill, plus an all-candidates debate where Bennett’s overdependence on a Blackberry for speaking cues from her campaign manager was exposed when its malfunctioning left her tongue-tied. Retailiating in recent days has been the even more anonymous Kent Watch, using an identical blog template, and being penned in the voice of "Peter’s Conscience". While not the greatest speller, this conscience can be found grappling with the clash between Kent’s stated views on same-sex marriage vs. Stephen Harper’s, having Kent’s campaign-boosting boss David Asper feign objectivity by not covering the erection of the Big Tent, and trading on celebrity status that’s arguably limited to ancient demographics.