It has officially begun. The long knives are out. Warren Kinsella was on CBC Radio's Ontario Morning explaining what Hans and Sean, both Liberal card carriers¹ if you don't have a program, were going on about yesterday. Dion's people are Martin's people and they don't want Chretien's people back in. Yessh-ka-bible! So it is, in fact, better to lose in a squabble that should have ended five years ago and then watch the country follow Harper than to get together and move on, say, in 2007. This contains a certain script:
- Chretienites are needed for victory.
- Martinites are losers
- Martinites are sore-heads.
- A Harper victory isn't a real victory.
- Dion is really not supported by half the party.
- Dion can't even reach out to half the party.
No wonder Bob Rae is jumping up on the campaign podium - having nothing to do with any of this stuff (as a defector) he must be stupified with the stupidity of the stupid people around him.
¹[Ed.: but apparently more in the sense of "latent host / incubator of the disorder" "carrier" than actual wallet filler going by the comments.]
Other news for Day 11:
- Is this really the campaign to blog about exclusively for 37 days?
- In the US election, McCain goes all Rousseau: "There is a social contract between capitalism and the citizen. That has been broken by these Wall Street executives."
Comments
Hans - September 17, 2008 9:39 am
The more arch-Chretien-disciple Warren analyzes/whines about politics the more he proves my point that if he is such a good Liberal and cares so damn much about the party and is so well connected and so smart then why doesn't he bloody well roll up his sleeves and start working to help the campaign? I agree, Al, that its time for supposed party insiders to move on. I think I will go look up sour grapes in the dictionary....
P.S. I'm a *former* card carrying Liberal.
Renee - September 17, 2008 9:47 am
To be fair, McCain probably went to middle school with Rousseau.
(PS: Your comments form gets me every time. It should be email then website!)
sean - September 17, 2008 9:57 am
I haven't been a paid up member of the party since the first card was issued with Martin's signature on it. That was the year the cards became White instead of the standard Red. (This was because the Martin squad sucked the lifeblood out of the party.)
And to put things into perspective, the party is currently being run by folk who I can only describe as "professional committee joiners". For the most part, they don't hold true to Liberal Ideals. They are small "c" Martinites who are frustrated that the world, and the majority of apathetic party members (or former party members) don't jump up and down extolling the virtues of their bandwagon, stable statist mentality and faux-ideology.
Corn Roasts yaay!
Antiquated NDP Has-beens Yaay!
Convoluted Carbon Tax yaay!
People just don't understand us boo!
Screw that. Let them wallow in their misery come October. When they move on to their $500,000 cottages to lick their wounds, we'll be back and the party will be representative of the average people of Canada again.
Alan - September 17, 2008 10:07 am
I have added a footnote.
Paul of Kingston - September 17, 2008 3:20 pm
This election is way too boring. I'm switching over to the US action.
Jay Currie - September 17, 2008 4:33 pm
Renee, you have made my morning...I am still laughing.
From experience I know that the Jackal - as Kinsella is referred to in polite company - is actually pretty accurate about the state of the Liberal Party.
The debates will, I suspect, be a race to the bottom of a very muddy pond.
Ben (The Tiger) - September 17, 2008 7:10 pm
The Grits aren't fighting "with one arm tied"... they're fighting either with one arm punching their own face, or with one hand with a chokehold on their own throat.