Not quite, but almost.

The former Manchester Guardian, corrupted and depraved by big city lights since it moved to London, has endorsed Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems:

Nick Clegg is the candidate of change

The Liberal Democrats offer a prospect of renewal which has been denied them by a grossly unfair voting system

Observer Editorial
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 1 May 2010 19.01 BST

The rotten parliament is dissolved; this week a new one will be elected. Scores of incumbents who fiddled their expenses will be evicted. Many who did not are standing down anyway, too defeated by the public's loathing of politicians to face the campaign trail.

So change is inevitable. Parliament will be full of novice MPs. It might also, if current opinion polls are borne out, be hung.

The Conservatives have spent much energy campaigning against that outcome. They have publicised their irritation that voters could deprive David Cameron of a majority much better than they have explained why he deserves one in the first place.

Mr Cameron warns portentously that a coalition might lead to instability, economic jeopardy and "more of the old politics". Perversely, he also rejects the need to change the current voting system, which has, he says, the merit of delivering clear results. Except this time it might not. What then? Mr Cameron's view is that the system would work fine, if only everyone voted Conservative. This is sophistry draped in hypocrisy. He backs first past the post, while agitating against one of the outcomes that is hard-wired into it. He is campaigning against the voters instead of pitching for their support. He defines change in politics as the old system preserved – but run by the Tories.

The expenses scandal signalled the need for more radical reform. This newspaper has consistently argued that the most effective change would be to introduce a fairer voting system. The current model contains a huge bias towards Labour and the Conservatives, giving them hundreds of safe seats where MPs can complacently ignore voters. Parties then divert money and skew policy towards a handful of tactically important constituencies. Awarding seats in parliament in proportion to votes cast would extend the franchise to millions of people who feel their voices have gone unheard. Deep unfairness radiates out of our voting system and corrupts our politics. This can only be fixed with electoral reform.

If a different system yields more coalition governments, so be it. Mr Cameron ought to appreciate how like coalitions the current political parties already are. Conservative policy expresses the party's agonies in recent years as different factions have competed to graft their priorities on to the leader's mutating creed.

When Mr Cameron became leader in 2005 he recognised that the party was widely perceived as uncaring and ill-disposed towards 21st-century Britain. He embarked on a campaign of modernisation. He tried to stamp out illiberal views on homosexuality. He sought to promote candidates from minority communities. He shifted rhetoric away from attacks on immigration and the European Union, professing instead enthusiasm for the environment and international aid. That process yielded a rise in opinion poll ratings, but provoked suspicion within the party.

In some policy areas, the Conservative party has genuinely changed. The Tories are reconciled to the minimum wage, civil partnerships, the NHS. But the project is incomplete. [...]

There is only one party on the ballot paper that, by its record in the old parliament, its manifesto for the new one and its leader's performance in the campaign, can claim to represent an agenda for radical, positive change in politics. That party is the Liberal Democrats. There is only one way clearly to endorse that message and that is to vote Liberal Democrat.

I suppose that the reason we have not heard about this from contracycle is that he is still choking on his yesterday morning porridge.

Perhaps it was because it wasn't very interesting or particularly surprising, a perception reinforced by the lack of any subsequent comment? Plus, your analogy would be more accurate if they'd come out for the Conservatives.