Andrew Coyne’s always smart and interesting editorial (no subscription needed today in a rare lapse?) in the National Post hits the supposed winnability of the Liberals (despite the liberals’ recent liberal poll done for them by their srategic reaffirmation council polling firm, which, shocka, puts the Liberals neck and neck with the Conservatives).
Seven months into the Liberal leadership race, the party has at last found its voice. No longer divided and despondent, party members have rallied around a positive, optimistic vision of the country, a message of hope they will take to the Canadian public in the next election. And the message is: We forgive you.
[…] Certainly that was the mood in the hall during the debate. As platitude followed platitude, each candidate emphasizing how right the party was about gun controls, how much they agreed on Kyoto, how awful that man George Bush was, the audience cheered and clapped their approval, in that way that people do when they want to signal how very closed their minds are.
[…] Which region is it that will form the basis of the next Liberal majority? The West? Don’t make me laugh. Quebec? A grand total of 3,700 votes were reportedly cast across the province in last month’s leadership ballot—and that’s including the dead. Ontario, perhaps, assuming the party is led by someone whose first and last names are not Bob and Rae. […]
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The National Post is chock full of excellent editorialists. Today’s lead editorial is also a must-read.
Sunday’s Liberal leadership debate in Toronto was a fascinating exercise: Such events are always more fun for the viewer when the race is close, all the candidates are flawed and everyone is stumbling around and clanking into one another like a gang of brain-damaged robots.
[…] Of course, in the mouth of a leftist, the word “compassion” doesn’t take its everyday meaning. Liberals have this funny way of using terms like “justice” and “compassion” to mean the same thing: aggressive wealth redistribution. If an NDP government runs up a deficit, that’s “compassionate” by definition. (But if the Bush administration does it, it’s just plain irresponsible.)
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