Good Liberals
The Liberal party leadership convention is this weekend in Montreal......my friend is going as a delegate and I am a bit jealous since it seems that this will be a very interesting convention.
Stephan Dion currently has the momentum. All candidates have serious electability problems. I feel that only Dion has a prayer of winning the next election - but even so his chances are slim.
Unfortunately none of the candidates are liberal at all in the classical sense of the word. Canadian politics is depressing, but not as depressing as American politics.
Stephan Dion currently has the momentum. All candidates have serious electability problems. I feel that only Dion has a prayer of winning the next election - but even so his chances are slim.
Unfortunately none of the candidates are liberal at all in the classical sense of the word. Canadian politics is depressing, but not as depressing as American politics.
Labels: current events
posted by Mr. Apple at 9:54 PM
2 Comments:
Apple,
The collapse of the federal Liberal party continues to astonish (and delight) me. Three short years ago, Paul Martin took over the reins of the party and the conventional wisdom among Canadian talking heads was that they were poised to win a minimum of 200 seats. Let's zip ahead to 2006. Now they're the opposition, and the latest Vegas odds have Bob Rae as a slight favourite to become leader. Bob Rae, fer chrissakes!! (Parenthetically, when did Bob Rae become respectable?) And the guy with the most delegates, Ignatieff, hasn't lived here in 30 years. Anyway, astounding.
Chris
I couldn't agree more. How is it that these are the best leadership candidates they can come up with? Harper is a very strong PM - if voters are at all logical (big if) the Conservatives should have a majority after the next election. Incidentally, I have also been following the betting odds....I almost put money on Dion when he was at +1000 or so, now he's at +225!?! Kennedy has also moved up recently....
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