POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY MICHAEL IGNATIEFF IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Mr Ignatieff, here's what I consider serious unfairness in our politics.
A few Liberal Party insiders go down to Harvard to lure a boring academic to return to Canada with the promise of likely leading the party about which he knew nothing.
The boring academic got parachuted into a riding about which he also knew nothing, and he refused to live in the riding, even though he once said that he would.
The boring academic made some speeches, in the course of pursuing the party's leadership, undeserving of it as he was, with thoughtless statements ready-made for exploitation later by Conservatives in attack ads.
The boring academic later, after the political demise of the politician who beat him out for the leadership, accepts being parachuted into the party's leadership without being tested by any meaningfully democratic process.
The boring academic proves a boring and genuinely inept political leader.
Every poll and gathering proves Liberals themselves do not like the boring academic, but he persists until he can lead the party to its degrading defeat.
And sure enough, the boring academic makes a dumb decision for an election which dooms Canadians to at least four years of Harper's slash and burn.
After quitting in a rush and accepting a sinecure at the University of Toronto, the boring academic manages to pound out a boring article every once in a while to be published in the Globe and Mail.
Sound familiar, Mr Ignatieff?
Mr Ignatieff, here's what I consider serious unfairness in our politics.
A few Liberal Party insiders go down to Harvard to lure a boring academic to return to Canada with the promise of likely leading the party about which he knew nothing.
The boring academic got parachuted into a riding about which he also knew nothing, and he refused to live in the riding, even though he once said that he would.
The boring academic made some speeches, in the course of pursuing the party's leadership, undeserving of it as he was, with thoughtless statements ready-made for exploitation later by Conservatives in attack ads.
The boring academic later, after the political demise of the politician who beat him out for the leadership, accepts being parachuted into the party's leadership without being tested by any meaningfully democratic process.
The boring academic proves a boring and genuinely inept political leader.
Every poll and gathering proves Liberals themselves do not like the boring academic, but he persists until he can lead the party to its degrading defeat.
And sure enough, the boring academic makes a dumb decision for an election which dooms Canadians to at least four years of Harper's slash and burn.
After quitting in a rush and accepting a sinecure at the University of Toronto, the boring academic manages to pound out a boring article every once in a while to be published in the Globe and Mail.
Sound familiar, Mr Ignatieff?
