10 Replies to “Mirror, mirror on the wall…”

  1. “I’ve been a spectator a lot of my life but this is about acting. … You have to be ready for combat, and you have to lead troops.”
    Memo to M. Ignatieff:
    You are still a spectator and haven’t led anyone anywhere.
    What are Mr. Ignatieff’s defining political issues and what direction is he going to “lead” the Liberal Party in, forget Canada, that makes him different from the government aside from just opposing the government on everything merely to be contrary.
    Liberal lurkers, are you up to explaining this?
    Zero points for bashing the current government, just like Mr. Ignatieff gets.
    What, generally, are Mr. Ignatieff’s defining policy directives?

  2. Ignatieff’s upcoming memoirs will have a chapter of how HE sabotaged Canada’s stature on the world stage this week by:
    – picketing a Tim Horton’s with UN flags;
    -standing in a farmer’s field demanding a park be built NOW that is not slated for construction until 2016
    – complaining about government advertising that is too positive and rosy about our economy when HE is wants us to believe we are all doooomed.

  3. “What, generally, are Mr. Ignatieff’s defining policy directives?”
    I don’t think he knows what he stands for anymore. His beliefs in the years prior to hitching his wagon to the Liberal party were anything but liberal. That huge void of missing years muddies his thinking even more.
    So he’s confused. He’s having difficulty reconciling what he really thinks with what he’s SUPPOSED to think, as a Liberal. So he cannot come up with cohesive policies.
    In other words, he’s a complete mess and probably panicking inside, wondering what in the hell he got himself into. (and why did he come back to join the Liberals.)
    Good luck with that.

  4. I can now see why Chretien, David Herle, Senator David Smith, Kinsella and others went public last June, recommending that Iggy force an election over EI-360.
    Iggy had a somewhat believable narrative up to that point–that Harper was doing a poor job of dealing with the economy. And Iggy was still being portrayed as the new guy on the beach, standing up to the bully Harper who was kicking sand in everybody’s face for too long.
    These politicos must have known that Iggy couldn’t susttain those narratives. And right they were, as Iggy retreated with his blue-ribbon fig leaf. The daily Ekos numbers for the LPC dropped about four points on that fateful day.
    So now what, for Iggy and Company ? They better hope that Layton, Duceppe and the media don’t join with Harper in taking the LPC down a few more notches, closer and closer to extinction. The LPC are hisorically resilient, but with nobody calling the shots, they are vulnerable on many fronts.

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