Gimbol's diatribe and screed

A trap being set?

Todays article by James Travers in the TORSTAR details on the subject of the race for leadder of the opposition. In it he argues how many factors, age, obsession with power, relying on backroom operatives, are detrimental to a liberal party that truly needs to look in the mirror and realize it doesn't recognize its own reflection.

Have to agree with Jim's take on Rae especially, Bob is definitely a "cheese eater". This POV is based for my part on the adage that one is known by the comapny one keeps.

Traver's also made a prediction that when it came down to crunch time he expects Dion to throw his support behind Rae to keep Iggy from being crowned king. Truth be told, my prediciton is that a some of the candidates (Brison being most obvious) are not running to be leader, but instead to be king-maker, thereby obtaining powerful alliances for the next kick at the cats.

My only critique of Travers is that he doesn't see Dion as a front runner. From my perspective, I would see the lone francophone from Quebec running against an entire field of GTA anglo candidates all except one (Brison) in a race that is less about ideas and more about flavour of the moment politically correct rhetoric, Dion has all the attributes to win the race and be seen as a logical replacement to Stephen Harper. The others fail to see this as they try to sanitize a political ideology similar to the Harper conservatives but then sabotage it by demonizing Harper.

Frankly being on the right side of the political divide, I hope the liberals choose Rae or Iggy.

But then from what I'm hearing...so do a lot of NDP supporters.

That will be the theme of my next post.

posted by gimbol @ 6:44 AM