Apolitical Staples

Travers wrote that?

Travers, one of the most left leaning columnists to haunt the decaying halls of old media?

The “Liberals can do no wrong” Travers?

It’s an interesting dynamic - watching the other side grapple with the inevitability of their defeat. Yes he threw in the “Harper misteps”,

but the finger pointing has begun.

Liberal knives are being sharpened, and gently placed under the beds to await the opportune time.

Chester is enjoying this.

Et tu, Travers?

Note how Travers is trying to prop up Dion by saying that ‘he’s just like Harper’. [Then why not vote for Harper?] Can you imagine - Travers trying to paint Dion as ‘another Harper’ - when the normal tactic would be to define your leader as everything different from the Other Leader.

The problem is, it’s difficult to say anything good about Dion - personally or intellectually.

But Harper isn’t a ‘wonk and socially inept’. Harper is clear, articulate, well-spoken, thoughtful, analytic and restrained. He treats people with respect; he actually listens to what they say and responds to them.

Dion is a wonk. Dion doesn’t behave like a leader or CEO but like an isolate, cocooned professor of a class of undergrads. He’s ‘full of himself’, a narcissist. He knows The Truth. As an academic, he never, ever, has to test that truth against reality. So, he can permit Rodriguez to put forward a Motion that Canada MUST meet its Kyoto levels - but, provide NO details, no plan, no policy, no strategy - for achieving that goal. Words, words - the safe haven of an academic.

Traver’s suggestion that the committees Dion has set up are about ‘a team’ is nonsense. It’s an old, basic schoolroom tactic of splitting your students into groups to study an issue. You, however, mark the papers.

But, rumblings are starting about Dion. How’s he going to deal with them? And above all, how are the Liberals going to deal with them?

It’s an interesting dynamic - watching the other side grapple with the inevitability of their defeat.

We should abolish elections altogether. Declare Harper as emperor and be done with it. ;)

Travers was - and still is - a Bob Rae fan. The people grumbling to him are most likely Rae-ites who are left out of the Dion inner-circle and election machine.

There were plenty of such stories about Chretien, and especially, Harper. All opposition leaders have to put up with it.

Dion won the leadership of the Liberal party when nobody gave him a chance.

Underestimating the man would be a mistake. Ask Bob Rae. Ask Iggy-wiggy.

I agree ET, Dion is a wonk, Harper is a strategist, the MSM tried to paint him as wonk and wished he was, but he isn’t

Greg, “We should abolish elections altogether. Declare Harper as emperor and be done with it.”

No Greg, one more time with feeling . .we should abolish funding with our tax money the Bloc, which goes to Ottawa to destroy parliament. It is a perverted system that funds those that want to destroy Canada.

If we refused to fund the Bloc, that has no representation other than Quebec, we could stop appeasing Quebec. Then the reaming national parties could fight an election on national polices and may the best party win.

We have a very sick electoral structure and it all boils down to the Bloc.

Sinister Greg,

interesting, that after 13 years of Liberal rule, the prospect of a single re-election of a conservative government prompts suggestions of imperialistic rule.

Interesting indeed.

C’mon guys, Sinister Greg was making a joke and a funny one at that.

Greg, after 13 years in the wilderness and wondering if I might die of old age before sanity was restored to my country, I don’t think it’s funny that you young guys with lots of time ahead of you joke that Harper is an Emperor. As far as I’m concerned we’re at war with the Liberals and that’s no joking matter.

SG is sore because his party is dieing and there’s nothing to prop it up, like there is to prop up the Bloc.

SG, wants to change the system so that failed ideas like the Dippers still harbour, hanging on life support, won’t just die. SG wants his 17% of MPs in Parliament.

I think changing our system so that Darwin doesn’t get to do his survival of the fittest on the 17% Dippers would be very dangerous for my kids’ future.

However, what might help SG and would certainly help Canada is to deal with the perversity of the Bloc. That’s a bigger albatross than the first past the post issue. If we dealt with the Bloc, SG might even get some support out of Quebec with the Dippers picking up the socialists that the Bloc left.

When I explain the role of the Bloc in Ottawa to people in other parts of the world, they think we’re insane to let the Bloc continue getting our $1.50 per vote to bust up my country.

That’s how I FEEL about it; conservatives have feelings too … now that’s a joke.