72 Replies to “Baby, Come Back!”

  2. Hey, Give him some time . . . he probably has some real scores to settle within the party and needs a few months for his Self-Immolation Vendetta Tour to run its course.
    Anything that helps put a stake through the cold, black, corrupt heart of the LPC is OK by me.
    The more stakes the better.
    Big stakes.
    Driven in with a sledgehammer.

  5. “he blames Conservative propaganda machine for adversely defining his public image”
    That Stephane sure is astute! Yep, it’s all those Conservatives in the MSM that sank his ship, nothing to do with his competence, or charisma.
    Stay, Stephane, STAY! We love, want, and NEED you! We Canadians know you are really cool, and we’ll never make the mistake of NOT voting for you again!
    I’ve ALWAYS said you are a combination of Rocket Richard and Charles De Gaulle!
    Best damned Liberal Leader since John Turner!

  7. he’s a man of great courage and conviction….a man of wit and wisdom……i of course voted he stay on as long as he can……as an example for all the others of courage….and conviction.
    sigh….i find this kind of determination to SEE THINGS THRU inspiring….i reckon jason cherniak’s bosom must be swelling with pride right about now….and who can blame him?

  9. This stinks to High Heaven! Someting is cooking in the fevered minds of the Liberal “Brains Trust”. Dion’s speech is full of the same rubbish he tried in the election campaign: rotten, mean Harper; rotten mean media; rotten stupid Candians for not understanding the wisdom of the Green Shift—on and on. So he’ll spend the next few months keeping this nonsense alive. Why?
    How about a non-confidence motion on the budget this Fall. Harper has to call another election. Dion-Layton-Duceppe trot to Rideau Hall and tell the Liberal-appointed GG they can run a coalition government and save Canadians another $300 million and spare us another election.
    Think I’m paranoid? Wait and see. Look at the hundreds of sore losers posting on the G&M and CBC boards right now—all saying Dion is best thing ever, and Harper has a “hidden agenda”!!!

  11. Hilarious,not only is he not a leader,he is barely a man… It is the bully’Arper’s fault,and you know I have a disability too!..What a weenie,I hope he never goes away.

  12. I don’t really understand how the Liberal party thinks that it is a good idea to have a leadership race so soon …
    The Liberal party can’t really afford a leadership race and will (likely) increase their debt load by running one. When that is done the Liberals will be in a (much) worse position to fight another election so their new leader will have to bend over and take it from Stephen Harper for months/years before Harper manufactures another election.

  13. Unlike Turner, who rented a bus so he could see 40 seats, I’m sure M. Dions looks nervously at them whenever he sees them go by, worried about who will toss him under it.
    Bump-Bump. Or seeing as he is a particularly soft sort of liberal: Bloosh-Squelch.

  14. “I am not a quitter. Harper is a quitter. But I do not quit. I am not a quitter. I AM NOT QUITTING!!!”
    He sure protested a lot . . .

  15. I believe it was Napoleon who said never interfere with your enemy while he is making a mistake. You go! “Delusional Dion” all those “attack ads” including the one showing your head melting over what some people are saying was a present, past tense mix up. Kind of them,really. Personally I thought it was your “giddy reaction” to the suggestion “if I am Prime Minister”??WTF! Me?? NOW? LATER?? 2.5 YEARS AGO??
    Never mind Mr. Dion Raphalfy and Dave are at the door of Storonoway with a big “blue bin” they were saying something about “recycling” how “green” of them.
    Cheers Bubba

  17. You Wrote: I’ve ALWAYS said you are a combination of Rocket Richard and Charles De Gaulle!
    Best damned Liberal Leader since John Turner!
    Posted by: dmorris at October 20, 2008 3:29 PM ”
    I think more like Rocky and Bullwinkle, no disrespect to Rocky and Bullwinkle.

  18. Love the ‘don’t care’ in the poll!
    Mr. Dion, any words?
    PIPPLES and yous media – yous are so mean.
    Iz not fair to mock me wit ma own words you you stoopid pipples!!!
    I wan’t quit now, just yous wait to see me eat my words wit a fouck and nife, eh? NON! I will not be pushed away…hay you, take your hands off me…..arret da push ok?

  19. I voted he stay. Please, oh please stay. Go Steffi. Don’t let them push you around. Fight the good fight. Joe Volpe too — within a few years some of his biggest contributors may well be old enough to vote.

  20. With regard to attack ads, the Liberals are absolute masters of them; remember those ‘Guns in Our Cities’?
    Equally, the Liberals have been trying for the entire two years of the 2006 Harper govt to smear and denigrate Harper. They’ve tried the link him with Mulroney-Schreiber, with Cadman, with every made up smear they could. Didn’t work. Did Dion The Upright stop them? No.
    So, Dion’s claim that his image is one created by and only by the Conservative ads, is inadequate. He’s done this to himself, including sitting on his hands for votes 43 times; including allowing those Committees to turn into Bash Harper attacks.
    Now, what’s going on? I think that Dion is living in his own fictional world. The world of the academic in a non-empirical discipline. One where you find TRUTH by means of your intellect. Not by empirical tests. Dion believes, as an intellectual, that he’s found TRUTH. That’s his Green Shift.
    I find it strange because his Green Shift has nothing to do with the envt; there’s no money for reducing emissions, no money for new technology. It’s all about taxing emissions, which must remain high or there won’t be any income..and then handing over this money to ‘the poor’. So they’ll vote Liberal.
    But Dion feels he’s discovered The Truth. Those people who don’t acknowledge this are ignorant – whether they are Liberals or Conservatives.
    The Liberal Party of course, is disinterested in Truth. It’s disinterested in the people. It has only one interest. Power. And it will do anything to achieve power. Lies, theft, manipulation. It doesn’t bother with policies.
    So, Dion the Truth-Finder, is staying on. I suspect he thinks he’ll defeat the Conservative Feb budget, and he’ll lead the Liberals into a triumphant spring election. Because by then, he feels, the people will See the Light about his Green Shift. Ahh, dreams, idle dreams.
    The fascinating thing about Dion, is he really believes he’s found The Truth.

  21. Agreed Fred – I think that we, the taxpayers should start squawking right now about the stolen, missing Adscam $$$ before that Liberano outfit thinks they can go bankrupt and escape jail time and a payback schedule. I think that the Blocheads would back PMSH in that quest unless they made a ‘deal’ with the Puffins via Charest. We must never let down our guard with this type of people!

  22. Maybe if they could pay off his two election debts he might vamanous, or however they say it Pierre-land.

  23. Is he staying on in hopes of triggering an election before he resigns as leader so the party will have to keep him on when he (cough) wins?
    If he tries to trigger an election over the next confidence vote will the caucus follow him in his quest?

  24. free rent at stornoway till May.
    and the chance to find some rich lieberals to pay up his owe, which I have heard various figures from 250 k to 650k.
    plus he still doesnt believe it.

  25. Damn you Bubba, I was going to use the line from the little Frenchman.
    Bonaparte, not Dion.

  26. *
    kate… you nailed this one.
    i wanna see iggy, boob, ralphie and spuds mccallum
    get together and belt it out…
    “Baby come back; any kind of fool could see
    There was something in everything about you
    Baby come back; you can blame it all on me
    I was wrong, and I just can’t live without you”
    *

  28. I’m glad he’s staying as interim even if he insulted Canadians by saying they did not chose his Green tax which was to be good for the environment but “instead, Canadians chose a different path”…
    “The Liberals need to be in power”: Says who?…The Liberals?…Hello Stephy, the Liberals just lost 6 days ago. BIG TIME. It was your fault, Nancy. The Liberals don’t NEED to be in power, they need to WIN the election. D-E-M-O-C-R-A-C-Y: It’s pronounced the same in French too.
    “Canadians did not know the real Stephane Dion”: AKA, Dumb Canadians only listened to the evil Conservatives propaganda and could not look beyond the attack ads. A-R-R-O-G-A-N-C-E: It’s pronounced the same in English too.
    And the Liberal trek into oblivion continues…I LOVE IT!

  29. Actually Dion’s debt may be the real reason he is handing on. I mean $600K is not small change !
    Bets anyone … that Rae with connections to Power Corp/Desmarais will be working overtime to find some legal way of paying off Dion’s debt so they can get rid of him ?

  31. Ummmm….just a thought.Are the Lieberals running a debt sorta like Freddie and Fanny? Lend money to twits who can’t pay them back,cause they can’t win,and then get bailed out by the taxpayer? Yup. Sounds like a typical Lieberal ploy. Although I have no problem with them getting bailed out,as long as it is only leftoids who have to pay for it.
    And,hey Stephie. Given up that France citizenship yet?

  32. The guy doesn’t get it, what else can be said?
    Blaming the Conservative ads for his defeat is the ultimate insult to the voters of the country for starters. The arrogance showed when he said Liberals must win the next election.
    To hell with the entire Liberal lot, let them stew in their mess. It got even worse today.

  34. So Dion had his ‘walk in the snow’ and this is what he came up with? Unbelievable! He needs a pair of Harper’s old shoes. I saw a Glabal National interview about a week before the election, with Dion’s wife where she opined about how tough it was to see her husband relentlessly attacked by MSM and the opposition.

  35. Damm me? atlanticjim the little general was in fact born on the island of Corsica in 1759 his family was I think originally Italian in origin. I mean really “victorious French General” that has oxymoron all over it. He was credited with taking the “flower of France” for his “Grand Armee” farm boys 6′ or better off to Russia of course most of those “fine strapping lads” never made it back. Bonaparte was “credited” with deleting the “gene” pool in France to such an extent that he lowered the “average height” of the “average Frenchman” by a foot. Most Europeans wanted him to keep going for at least another 2 Feet. I know, I know they would be running across the Island yelling “The Plan, boss da Plan” Wait a minute wasn’t that Steffis line? Whoa! you be the judge.
    Cheers Bubba

  36. Those arrogant Liberals can never imagine anything being their own fault.
    Even Adscam was “a few millions might have been taken” no big deal and they couldn’t figure out why people would still hold that against them.
    Now arrogant Dion blames the Conservatives because his Green Shifty didn’t capture the imaginations of Canadians.
    Imagine that, us not wanting to be taxed more!
    I sincerely hope he does bring the government down over the budget next spring and see how bad a mood Canadians can be in when forced to go to the polls twice in less than a year.
    Adler was just talking about Dion and summed it up perfectly with “what a loser.”

  37. Pizza Joe has called for the leadership convention to be at the Constellation Hotel. Whoops wrong coup.

  39. Well, that was fast. Dion is letting the new leader decide his own programme. I just heard the Green Shift burbling down the drain…
    I think he didn’t trust the Liberal Party to pay his debts and that is why he is staying on. At least he will get his salary as Opposition Leader for a few more months plus free rent.
    I remember May calling Canadians stupid – well Dion just about did the same thing since we didn’t get his Green Shift apparently.
    Where is the Hercules to clean up this Augean stable of the Liberal Party. What a bunch of me-firsters.

  40. You linked to Dourque. Please don’t do that again without warning those of us who don’t want to give the Tory a shill another hit.

  41. Kate
    The Scream….perfect!
    In Steffy’s own quaint passive/aggressive way today’s press conference was analogous to The Scream. The angst…the pain..the horror…Oh the humanity….
    Syncro

  42. Maybe Stephane and Stockwell Day can share “poor me” stories about the mean old opposition being such bullies.
    Or Steven Harper – rememberthe “How Scary???” Liberal campaign against him.
    Heh.

  43. I agree with Joe that Dion did not accept this loss as having anything to do with him or with the rejection of his green shift. He has signalled that he could win if the Tories are not able to “negatively define” him.
    I believe his goal is to try to fight another election in order to prove that he really is a winner. He will try to bring the Harper gov’t down although he may not be successful as the party may not let him do it.

  44. Patrick B
    I don’t think the coalition will happen for two reasons:
    1 – Liberal brand: The Liberals will not devalue their brand by throwing in with the BQ or the Dippers, it is a stand alone brand. Any coalition hurts their image as the “big party on the block” in my opinion.
    2 – BQ viability: The BQ don’t need to form gov’t, and their traditional rival are the Liberals. IMO the BQ working with the Liberals devalues the BQ because it raises the question: Why the BQ? We’ve got the Liberals. This is the same reason the Liberals had to abstain from voting in the H of C in this minority. Any support for the Conservatives from the Liberals will be looked at as an endorsement and the same goes in Quebec for the BQ and the Liberals.
    My analysis:
    I think it is much more likely that the BQ will work with the Conservatives. Working in this manner the BQ will be able to make the case next election that:
    1 – The BQ gets things done for Quebec
    2 – Quebec needs the BQ to prevent a Conservative majority

  46. Today’s press conference was a pretty appalling display of hypocrisy, arrogance and borderline demagoguery.

  47. I think that Dion is staying on because he believes that he has found The Truth. I’ll bet he wants another election, ignoring that no party wants one – and neither do Canadians.
    What Canadians want is an end to the bickering and the parties working together. The provincial premiers have already stated such an agenda.
    Dion’s refusal to accept responsibility, and his assertion that the Conservative ads were the cause of his ‘bad image’ among Canadians and that ‘Conservatives have all the money’ ignores that the Liberals in 2004, 2006 put out a lot of negative ads against Harper – everything from ‘guns in our cities’ to ‘hidden agenda’.
    Oh, and Dion is ignoring that his constant refrain during this campaign was Bush/Harper.
    So, he ought to stand up, and take some blame himself. His Green Shift is not the Truth; it’s a Green Shaft and a blatant tax grab by the centre against the West. To bribe voters to vote Liberal. It certainly has nothing to do with the environment.
    His behaviour in the House, with his constant name-calling of Harper (as a ‘control freak’); his refusal to vote; his allowing Committees to smear Harper… all of this is reprehensible behaviour.
    Dion’s current attempt to portray himself as a hapless victim, won’t work. And we see today, how the MSM is slavering over him, declaring him a Hero of Canadian politics, having ‘saved Canada’ with his ‘clarity act’. Sure.
    Dion plans to stay. He wants a spring election. Now, how will Rae and Ignatieff deal with this?

  48. Let the liddle guy stay… so Harper can keep kicking sand in his face.
    I mean, doesn’t he remind you of the “before” in the Charles Atlas add?

  49. Patrick B and ET, I doubt very much Dion and LPC can engineer spring election, with much less probability of trying to sieze power with coalition of the left out of power.
    The LPC is flat broke. They fought last election on borrowed money ($1.95 per vote per year) and will receive $1.5 million less per year as result of vote drop. Yes, CPC will forego $300,000 per year, but their coffers are full with fundraising going extremely well.
    Second, the BQ would have to go along with a non-confidence motion/defeat of budget to force spring 09 election. If the idea of coaliton or minority government with them involved is even entertained, there will be Liberal defections, who will support the government, which only needs 12 votes to carry day, assuming Speaker is not Conservative, or 13 will do. Duceppe dodged a bullet in last election, there is no little chance he will take the risk of getting creamed, and Tories have probably already started building a proper organization in Quebec; witness their tiff with Charest who did zero to help them recently.
    Third, Harper will bring in moderate budget designed to protect Canada in stormy waters (don’t listen to Drummond types who project $10B deficit; he’s a Liberal sycophant and was dead wrong on deficit projection this time). If it’s defeated, and Canadians are forced to go the polls again, they will punish the opposition parties severely.
    Fourth, the NDP is is no shape themselves to fight election. They have no compelling issue to fight on, and their Marxist rhetoric and silly leader consign them to operate on the fringes of Canadian political decision-making.
    Finally, the Liberals need to renew with another leader, and won’t let Dion take another stab at it. He is figurehead leader now, at best, and the party has no intention whatsoever of letting him lead them into another election; nor are they willing to go to the polls for unpopular election with brand new leader. The new leader will need much more time that 6 months to get his/her act together, gather a team and rejuvinate their political brand and fundraising ability.
    IMHO, no chance of either coalition/minority seizure of power of confidence/budget defeat of government to force spring election. If they did, then Harper would likely be assured majority government. The risk for the Liberals is too high, and the chances of payoff of power too remote for them to go for power that soon.

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