His Heart Will Go On

Dion doesn't have a prayer - it doesn't matter if you're talking about Quebec or the rest of Canada.

My guess is that, the day after the Liberal leadership convention, most Lib supporters woke up thinking "Holy S#!@, what have we done?"

Now, strapped for cash and with no hope of getting back into power anytime soon, the party is probably too occupied with internal strife to actually worry about silly issues like making their leader look better.

Heck, even their strategists have likely declared him a lost cause and are now just collecting their pay-cheques while they wait for the next leadership convention.

Of course, for the sake of optics, they have to hold onto Dion until he loses the next election...and, even then, who do they replace him with? Trudeau junior is too young and there are no other "star" candidates.

It is sad that the Conservatives seem stuck in the polls. But, at least they have no opponents that pose a credible threat.

Separated at birth.

http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/4828/bildevo4.jpg

h/t to Freeper GMMAC.

Yesterday Scott Reid was calling on the opposition to topple the gov't in the fall, what is the motive beind this when he very well know's that Dion would most likely be defeated. The reason the insiders know they have the wrong man, so what to do. Get him fired by the electorate & have a leadership review/convention. But will it decimate the Liberal coffers as they are sitting virtualy broke, No because of the 1.75 ea.per/vote so what a better way to rebuild at the expense of canadian taxpayers. So a 3 fold accomplished, money from an election & convention and new leader.

this is the situation that kept Jean Chretien in power.

all harper has to do is keep going. the rest are just shooting themselves in the foot, and the MSM laps it up and spews it out.

next election is in 2009

Well, to look at the HOC at the start of QP you'd have the impression Dion was a real hit, he gets a standing ovation from his hypocritical minions every day. Nice try, but they're not fooling anyone unless they're trying to fool themselves.
Denial is a handy state for them now.

It's a long climb from the bottom when there's no money for a lift up. Can't buy Joe Blow's vote any more, that's gotta hurt.

bryanr:

Having an election doesn't effect the coffers of the Liberal Party (unless they think they will get more votes than the last election) as that $1.75/vote is an annual amount, not a 1 time amount after the election.

http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/bills_ls.asp?lang=E&ls=c24&source=library_prb&Parl=37&Ses=2

The bill provides for an annual allowance to registered parties in the amount of $1.75 per vote received by the party in the previous general election, provided the party has received in the last election either 2% of the valid votes cast nationally or 5% of the votes in the ridings where the party ran candidates (proposed section 435).

Don't they get the $1.75 each year regardless of whether there is an election?

And don't forget John Turner, the Liberals kept him around long enough to lose twice.

bryanr, Mike Duffy asked the same thing yesterday, if Scott Reid and others want election just to get rid of Dion. I don't think any of them thinks Dion has chance to be PM, barring some calamity or scandal not on radar screen right now.

Some people (like BigCityLib), think everything is OK because party numbers are higher. I don't think so; while voter intention is more important, growth will come from public judgement of who is best leader. For this reason, he has little growth potential. It is a far more telling stat than say, second choice, which MSM gleefully tried to use to show Harper hurting.

Dion has only criticized and complained, and hasn't come close to telling Canadians true cost of Kyoto inplementation. If, as Reid suggests, he goes to public with this as any part of his platform, he will get creamed.

What a fascinating set of comments by Liberals. What emerges is the fact that they don't have a clue about the modern political, economic and social realities of the time. What are they proposing? The Trudeaupian 'vision' of the flower children of the 1960-80's.

They want to 'embrace the global village'; they want to 'bring people together, moving forward [what the heck does that mean???]; while respecting various backgrounds and perspectives".
Oh god - multiculturalism, flower children, cultural relativism...

Then, they are into 'environmental sustainability' (more empty phrases); and pacifism (oh my god); and 'neutrality'. These flower children are all living, cocooned, as Cloud Dwellers, floating in the pre 9/11 world, safe in the Beatle's songs of the 1980s.

What do they know about Islamic fascism, about the emerging economic and political might of China, about the relentless fight being waged in the Middle East by the Islamists against moving from the 7th century into the modern world. What do they know or care about the changing demographics of Europe and the West, the collapse of the generational ratio - with more elderly than young.

They say nothing about these key issues of our time. Instead, they talk vapid flower-child nonsense about 'embracing the global village'. Hey guys - it's not a village out there with crumpets, jam and tea on the patio. It's a bloody upheaval in the ME and the Far East and Europe. Wake up to reality. No - these guys don't want to live in reality; they want the safe cocoon of the past.

No policies, no reality - that's the Liberal party, and that's why they are in trouble.

Kate:

You don't even need to write a post. You'd be regular stop just for your headline writing.

Please please please call the election.....Dion and the liberal campaign will be a disaster.....Just the way it will be.

This is why I thought fixed election dates were the dumbest thing since pet rocks.

I really enjoyed the comments regarding these polls. It always facinates me to watch folks rework the liberal party message. The rationalizing of why Dion is a failure is to say the least,"a hoot".
When the gomerey inquirey was on, quebecers watched a lot more of it than we did in English Canada. As a result the average quebecois understands the depth of corruption in the Federal Liberal party far better than a lot of us.
We don't have to worry about the Liberals, we need to spend our time developing a media action plan to deal with a horrible and biased media.
have a great day! mel

the thing that really twists my skull is who are the 30% that will actually admit that they would vote librano?....friggin mind boggling that any idiot would even contemplate voting for them(unless of course your career is dependant upon librano largesse)

Mel is right. The media.

Hey, largesse and Liberal are no longer a team, they simply haven't got it, they're troubled with the shorts. Can't buy anybody. They can make promises though, if anyone chooses to believe them, talk is cheap.
Wasn't smart guy McCallum talking about raising the GST back up? He's about as smart on finance as geography, didn't know Vimy from Vichy.

I seem to remember that Harper was at about 7% in Quebec when he took over the Alliance.

The bottom line is never, ever count the corrupt Liebrano colossus out.

Always assume that we are behind.

"DAT IS NOT FAIR! Doughs Quebek piples luv me both ways " Borat Dion