Gimbol's diatribe and screed

Todays bit of screed on the race for Stornoway

There's alot of subjective commentary on this weekends delegate selection for the liberal leadership race, so it won't really matter if there is one more.

From my POV it doesn't matter who wins, because the LPC will hold their nose and say they support whoever wins the race. I say "hold their nose" because for them until they ditch the "power at all costs monetary, legal, or moral" they cannot truly say they've learned their lesson and deserve another chance at running the country.

But I digress, when one of those candidates is a guy that has expounded on how he's going to gore some sacred cows and not just a few of the left wing have demonized him for being "Harper-like", I find it just a bit disengeneous that those that support him are doing it cause they believe he's the next incarnation of Trudeau. Frankly what I believe it is (and here's my subjective diatribe) is that they see the next lunch wagon has arrived and they want to tag along for a freebee.

Now for the second bit of diatribe. See there are still some trudeauites in the liberal party that take exception to Mikey and his self-ascribed likening to Trudeau, especially when he's said so many things diametrically opposed to the trudeau legacy. These old timers however occupy some of the well entrenched hiarchy of the party and will do anything to see that Iggy doesn't win. So lets look at the numbers, Iggy has 30% of delegates, a good lead but not a sure thing if the next two candidates decide to combine their votes. Well thats not likely to happen till after the first ballot. What will happen is horse trading and thats a dangerous thing if your the front runner. In the liberal world view everybody has a price, and conversely, everybody's soul is for sale. Iggy may be an honourable man, but when the party you aspire to lead is still infected with the operatives of Adscam in the head office, its not a stretch to think that a few of them are resident in the Iggy campaign. In the last stretch of the campaign team Iggy is going to be trying to solidify his gain, so to are Rae, Dion, and Kennedy. As a result the also rans will be considered fair game and will be offered a great deal in return for their delegate support. The other side of that coin is that if the offer becomes public knowledge the campaign team making the offer looks despirate or if the offer is border line (not illegal but immoral) they help remind Canadians that the liberal party is still up to their dirty old tricks.

Now having considered that the party is still got the adscam players very much in place how hard is it to see this type of scenario scuttle at least one of the candidates campaign heading into the convention?

Like I said, it doesn't matter who wins.

posted by gimbol @ 4:01 AM