Gimbol's diatribe and screed

Liberals new useful idiot part 2

Its official, Dion wants to make the Green's a branch party of the LPC.

And May plays the part on que.

Of course, such associations do have there drawbacks. Unless its where you wanted to be all along?

Now a short quick note to liberals.

By believing and acting on the premise that "uniting the left" will do for you what it did for conservatives, your making a mistake.
Rather than being a party of the left and the center, you've now become a party of the left, the far left, and only the far left.
That genie is out of the bottle now and it won't be going back in unless you can quickly call a leadership race, re-write (actually write) policy , select a new leader that is more centrist (do a hard right turn) and you can do this before Harper pulls an excuse for a nonconfidence vote, you might end up like the old federal Progressive Conservative party under Kim Campbell.

But hey don't listen to me, you decide what hill you want to expire on.

Update:

Looks like this wasn't a spur of the moment thing. Or at least thats if Gart isn't just blowing smoke trying to look like an insider?

On the way there, of course, I listened to reaction to the day’s big political announcement of the marriage of convenience between Stephane Dion and Elizabeth May. As you might imagine, I’d known about this for a while, and had mixed feelings about Dion’s decision not to run a candidate against May in her ballsy move to unhorse Peter Mackay.

Somebody might want to get a screen shot of that too.

In other developments this story from the TORSTAR quoting May saying the decision was more of one based on vendetta than principle.

"OTTAWA–

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has vowed to make Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay pay for a controversial decision to merge the former Progressive Conservative party with the right-wing Canadian Alliance.

May told the Star yesterday she plans to build a political coalition that will punish MacKay for breaking a promise not to sell out the old PC party, which he merged with the Canadian Alliance in 2003.

May will face off against MacKay, the MP from Central Nova since 1997, in the next federal election.
MacKay's decision to merge the PC party with the Canadian Alliance was controversial because of a gentleman's agreement that MacKay made with fellow leadership candidate David Orchard in the 2003 campaign to run the party. Third-place candidate Orchard backed MacKay after receiving a promise not to join with Stephen Harper's party.
Orchard later joined the Liberal party and backed Stéphane Dion's leadership bid.
– Allan Woods"

I guess the green in May's party is a little green monster.

Labels: Liberal leadership race, May's little green monster

posted by gimbol @ 3:48 AM