political roundup


so it seems ignatieff's summer chest pounding of bringing down the government amounted to nothing as other parties came to harper's defence and the conservative minority keeps rolling on for the foreseeable future.

it is a shame really because odds are the conservatives would've won yet. maybe then liberals would actually do some creative destruction and re-brand their party in a sensible way than the bandaid approach since chretien folks booked it. for it has become blatant that choosing ignatieff as the liberal party leader is a bigger mistake then dion. like an aging hockey team whose past glories are just memories where insitutional rut and routine prevent new ideas and fresh blood from bringing it back on course.

so now that iggy's polls numbers are dipping to the lowest of the lows, he has brought in team chretien to steer this ship back on course. will it work? i doubt it.

it's not so much that canadians are put off by ignatieff. he's celebrity status put him as the most recognizable politician even before stepping foot into the house of commons. canadians revere our own that have established themselves beyond our borders. international success is like the kid that gets out of the small town and heads for the big city. it's seen in our actors, musicians, and athletes, so the political elites are likely to enjoy the same proudness amongst the citizens. the conservative attack ads on iggy's un-canadianness hasn't really resonated and for the most part, they've let it slide that he hasn't lived in canada for the last 20 years.

what is wrong with the liberals now is liberals. the good years of chretien's cake walk majorities are a distant past. the rules of the game have changed and the united right means liberals won't be painting the electoral map red anytime soon. thus, bringing in chretien's former aids just perpetuates the problem of a party not really wanting to do any real soul searching to find something new and fresh to get canadian votes on their wagon.

and now with canadians more and more open to harper, iggy's once promising political resume could spell an entire bust. not just for him, who i imagine, does not handle defeat well. but a bust for the liberal party members who are being hijacked by iggy's personal aspirations of padding his CV than actual commitment to politics is not that of his academics.

where once ignatieff had the potential of sinking harper's political career, in the fall of 2009, the tables have turned. now, it's stephen harper dangling the nooze.


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