Gimbol's diatribe and screed

What if McKenna had run?

I ask the question because I've noticed that Frank is starting to make some public appearances and saying things that no liberal leadership contender would dare say i.e.: Canada should join misslie defence. It tells me that the LPC has come to the realization that they may be in opposition for some time unless they can find a leader that will appeal to Harper's conservative base. They still don't get it.

While I agree McKenna has made a correct assessment, I disagree that, as some liberal bloggers want to contend, that if he had entered the race and said as much that he wouldn't have recieved as rough a ride as Iggy is getting now.
The reason I dissagree about this is that the LPC is still very much beholden to the special interest groups that have co-opted their party.
Proof in point, they still award delegate status to interest groups. If they want to make it a fair contest, really fair, they have to only allow the riding associations to send delegates.
If it wasn't the case, would Iggy have gone on a popular french language network talk show and say something totally out of character? Or was it as it appeared, just a crass attempt to patronize the anti-Israel voters in Quebec?
The crux of it is that until the liberals reject the only policy they have (power at all costs) even the Dalai Lama wouldn't be safe from the depradations of the liberal party poll watchers entrenched in the backrooms of Power.

Like I posted on another blog this AM, agree or dissagree with Harper, Canada knows where he stands. Nobody can say for certain where the liberals stand, that makes them inconsistent and most importantly untrustworthy.

Somehow in their rush to get the stage set for McKenna's entry into the federal liberal fold I doubt they will understand this and in the process will transform Frank McKenna into the type of liberal leader Paul Martin was.

Sucks to be them.

posted by gimbol @ 4:33 AM