I am sad today.
Sad for all Canadians,
Dion has no chance.
This Haiku poem neatly sums up my – and I would assume most competent Canadians’ – views on what will transpire after Thanksgiving this year (the real one…not this November B.S.).
The maddening part is that this election is so wide open that just about anyone could win it. Anyone except Dion…and Jack Layton (although I think his mustache has a chance).
I’m sure Dion is a nice enough bloke and probably interesting company on a nature walk – but I look at him and picture the substitute teacher in high school we made cry (and probably quit teaching).
I’d be willing to bet he’s an avid Dungeons and Dragons player and probably collects model trains – which doesn’t make him a bad guy, but it doesn’t make him easy to like. I’m pretty sure that even my grandmother wants to beat him up and steal his lunch money. The man is a geek – a pure unadulterated power-nerd. He is Charlie Brown incarnate.
Frankly, Stephane can’t be blamed for this, you are what you are and you should embrace that. But in the political race to become Prime Minister, you must either be a man of power and charisma or a crudely fashioned robot, pieced together from Radio Shack parts and Brian Mulroney’s chin.
The true culprits are the mentalists in the Liberal party who legitimately believed he would be a worthy opponent of Harperbot.
Ignatieff must have really messed shit up.
How winnable is this election? Read this article and ask yourself whether Harper would attempt this sort of thing if he respected the person he was running against.
I'm thinking not.
2 comments:
Hey Gazza!
Wow, nice comments. I do agree with you on many of your points.
Ignatieff was my first choice and I was disappointed when kingmaker Kennedy crowned Dion. He is a policy wonk, he loves to get into the nitty gritty details, the nerdy policy stuff that only backroom anti-socials enjoy.
Ah, c'est la vie. Unfortunately, he does not fit the mold of a Leader in the eyes of Canadians because he does look like he can be taken by your Grandmother. Harper will win - how big, we don't know yet. (Although Layton's stache is catchin' up!)
The good thing is, we will see another Liberal Leadership race and maybe this time Liberal insiders and delegates will think twice where they place their vote.
Keep up the rants and I will continue to comment.
Peace out.
PoliticalMonkey
Nice one.
I'm not sure thought that those who are likely to vote for Harper are not just worried by the current economic situation (especially after today)and feel the RELIANCE party is best suited to get the country out of it.
It matters not that this government will have little effect on the outcome.
I agree with politicalmonkey that either Ignatieff or Rae would have been better suited (although I favoured Rae)and the best we can hope for from all of this is a leadership run and then like The Leafs, "there's always next year"
Talk soon,
Boru
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