32 Replies to ““A letter to a young liberal””

  2. The list of better PM candidates than Justin Trudeau would take me all day to type, so no argument there, but Ignatieff, who comes from a similar “otherworld” would have been a disaster as PM.
    Philosophers/intellectuals don’t make very practical policies in the real and ugly world a PM inhabits.Ignatieff would have been just as much the cardboard cutout of the PM for the Quebec cabal of corruption that runs the LPC, as Trudeau’s about to become, if Canadians are that stupid.
    Make my day, tell me we aren’t.

  3. Michael Ignatieff says, “Liberalism will become an enclave conviction of a shrinking minority unless those who call themselves liberal reconnect their faith in tolerance, equality, opportunity for all with the more difficult faith in the dirty, loud-mouthed, false, lying business of politics itself.”
    He chooses to forget or ignore that it was under First Secretary P. E. Trudeau that this process of denigration of opponents began. during the latter half of the last century the Liberal Party of Canada shifted its ideology from being a champion of liberal democracy to that of being a champion of Karl Marx. The Liberal Party of Canada is no longer liberal.
    My family supported the Liberal Party of Canada when it came as refugees from Soviet Russia in the 1920s, but left it during the 1960s when it shifted further to the left and became Marxist lite.

  4. Count Michael was stupid enough to hire thin skinned,progressive egomaniacs Kinsella and Kirbie to run his war room.
    K&K were more interested in WK’s “rise up” and chasing’ each other for some jiggy rather than working for the Iggy.
    Now Mr.reverse Midas touch is trying to force his way into Bozo’s campaign.
    All non -libs would applaud this but even brain addled Bozo won’t let him near his delusional attempt to become a the reigning monarch of Canada.

  5. And, thankfully, he’s nothing like Great Leader Vladimir Vladimirovich, otherwise we’d be subjected to your cheerleadiing over him too. BTW I hear Murmansk is beautiful this time of year. Bonus: there’s still a trolleybus line.. There’s surely an opening at the local poly-technique for a reliable fellow like you.

  7. I never hated Iggy as I do most Libranos, perhaps it was because he was too honest to disguise who he was or apologise for the scum who own the party – just not a pathological liar/poser as is requisite of the librano leader caste. Iggy was more of a deer-caught-in-the-headlights kinda guy more so than any degenerate control freak liberal power junky.
    Iggy’s casual interest in Librano party machinations is probably why he got out alive. Count Iggy can be thankful they did not have time to suck out his soul in their quest for the one ring to rule us all. Iggy escaped Librano Mordor – Justin was born into it – has the birth mark of sauron.

  9. Little known was the action dictator loving PET took in 1967 when Soviet Premier Kosygin was rumoured to visit Expo’67 while he was nearby attending the Glasboro convention.
    A group of Canadian – Ukrainian teens demonstrated the anticipated visit ousde EXPO and were thrown in jail by order of then Justice Minister PET.
    Even then PET was a wanna-be dictator now his son Bozo is fumbling around trying to become another Progressive despot.
    One of the group was my brother.

  10. Inquiring minds want to know…who wrote the letter to Iggy and do they look like Leisuresuit Larry and have the initials jt?

  11. Occam, I don’t think that “hate” is a rational emotion when applied to politics, that is why it is the preserve of the left. They are the ones who are driven by emotion rather than rational thought. I can disagree with every policy (or lack thereof) that the left espouses and have little or no faith in the leaders they produce – but that is not hate. Hate is “Harper Derangement Syndrome” and spouting about neocons, whatever they may be. Let us continue to hold the high ground of common sense and not sink to the emotional abyss of the left.

  12. “All the best reasons for going into politics never really change: the desire for glory and fame….”
    “The desire for glory and fame” is the second worst reason to enter politics. The desire to create a worker’s paradise is the very worst reason.

  13. The Liberal party keeps praying for a home run with iconic cult of personality figures. First came the environmentalist icon Step-On Dion. Then came the intellectual visiting professor icon Michael Ignatieff. I feared that these two charlatans would trick the Canadian public, but my faith was restored when these pretenders were sent packing by the electorate. Most recently the Liberals have put forward Justin Trudeau. From any objective point of view, Justin’s only true iconic achievement is in the area of personal grooming. After the recent by-elections that the Liberals won according to the media, but lost according to Elections Canada, Thomas Mulcair knows must rip Trudeau a new one during the debates if he is to keep his coveted role as leader of the Official Opposition. I look forward to watching Mulcair and Trudeau trashing each other on TV thereby forcing the media to allow those two clowns to show each other for what they are, and, in so doing, making Harper look like the only adult in the room to the voting public. To paraphrase Hank Kissinger when Iran and Iraq were duking it out, “I wish them both the very best of luck”.

  14. The idea that you can run for Prime Minister and that your opponents won’t make your resume an issue strikes me as a bit dumb. His real complaint seems to be “the Tories did a better job of getting their message out.”

  15. Iggy was always a political misfit (much better person than most in the pit) but he was such an easy target to direct the pathological anti-Americanism at that who could resist. He is correct that he was never or rarely attacked for his ideas, which he should have been if politics were in the realm of rational debate.

  16. The character or Iggy is irrelevant when the party he represented is vile and corrupt.
    (Notwithstanding that his allowing himself to represent such vileness speaks a great deal more to his character than platitudes.)

  17. He may have been able to handle his background out of the country if it weren’t for his supporters in the media. I wondered at first if we weren’t being a little narrow minded – not that i was going to vote lib anyway – but soon Canadians were being trashed soundly for being yokels. No doubt this clever messaging came straight from mastermind WK.

  18. Iggy is a guy who sold out his own ideals which he’s been writing and teaching about for a long time. Sold them out for a crack at power in a country he hadn’t lived in his whole adult life. Which he moved out of again with indecent haste after losing the election, thereby confirming my impression of the man.
    That’s not the guy I want running my county.

  19. Iggy was used by a very desperate for power Liberal party. They promised him power was assured, all he needed to do was run and the voters would be mesmerized by his charm. Turned we were not quite the stupid hicks they took us for. Funny thing is, the Liberals haven’t learned anything on that score, they’re at it a gain with Master Justin.

  20. Count Iggula may be a better and more honest man than Shiny Pony, John Lewis, but then again, that is a pretty low bar. In all fairness though, the young Dauphin has way better hair.

  21. The phrase “damning with faint praise” springs to mind.
    I’ve seen roaches I liked better than Justin Trudeau. Reason being, no matter how scuzzy and disease infested a roach may be, it can’t jack up my taxes. Little Justin will do that.

  22. Just visiting , now just in
    Harper has better hair, just not a high school style. Eventually the shiney pony will take after PET and that do will look like Larry Fine. Or take after his mama with the fro betwix the thighs

  24. Ignatieff has found out that to be legend in his own mind, possibly inserted there by his hired help, does not qualify you for anything other than your parents think well of you.
    You have to admit though that now he gets the drift.
    It appeared, when he started his political career that because he was from Harvard people should fall at his feet and see his pronunciations as a kind of manual for their lives.
    He may have had some good ideas if any, though he had no idea of the backroom boys*.
    *Backroom boys have the real power, just ask Wild Rose, they are those that scheme and strategize, not necessarily for any good or bad, it is just because they are paid to do it.
    It may be that caucus comes up with a program to get canned, the backroom boys get on their strategy task and change the proposal that will end up wholly ineffective though it sounds reasonable. That is their job.
    You may have noticed that kind of behaviour by those that are perceived to be leaders and become politicians.
    Much the same thing happened to Manning.
    Very few politicians can stand on their own because they are directed to project. As Ignatieff advises the young punk, you got to be yourself.
    Reagan comes to mind. Normal people consider him to be one of great presidents of the US. When he wrote his speech mentioning the evil empire, the boys told him no good, he took it out of the script and inserted it back in during the speech.
    It had immediate power, it is respected and talked about to this day. The only people that sneer are the United States Bolsheviks.
    That is why the handshake and remark of the Prime Minister of Canada to Putin resonates, except with the Canadian Bolsheviks and people of weak mind.
    Yeah, Ignatieff got it right this time. Thankfully too late.

  25. “A man like Nixon had authenticity aplenty. Voters knew exactly who he was: suspicious, manipulative, duplicitous, and just like them. They saw through him to themselves.”
    Actually, he wasn’t. He was a brilliant man who made some stupid mistakes when he got caught up in a scandal that should have resulted in a couple convictions of personal staffers. He tried to cover up instead of just admitting the problem.
    “John Kerry fell victim to the swift-boat attack because he couldn’t own the young lieutenant back from Vietnam who gave that damning testimony in Congress about the terrible things he witnessed up the Mekong Delta.”
    Actually he didn’t. There’s a fair amount of evidence that he saw nothing, that he made up the “damning testimony” and that the reason he couldn’t own the young lieutenant is because the young lieutenant was full of shit.
    I thought this was a pretty thoughtful piece right up to that point, at which time he had to repeat the liberal mantra of lies and excuses. I haven’t read past this part, but don’t know that I really need to.

  26. PS I especially like the comment where the Nadine chick who is frantically spamming the article with her “overthrow Stephen Harper” links includes an @katewerk tweet which I believe is our very own Kate.

  27. Practical intellectuals in Canadian politics include Sir John Abbott and William Lyon Mackenzie King. Probably also Lester Pearson.

  28. Meanwhile in the real world Iggy proved every attack against him to be 100% true. He was just visiting. He did just come back to Canada to become prime minister. He was planning on forming a coalition with the dippers and the bloq. The fact he’s pissed off those things were pointed out in a political campaign is hilarious. For a professor he’s not very bright but we already knew that. Yeah politics is dirty when the truth about someone is presented to the electorate.

  29. “I went into politics thinking that, if I made arguments in good faith, I’d get a hearing.”
    Too bad then, that you didn’t get around to making any arguments in good faith.
    But then, Michael, Leftists never do.

  30. Bah! I don’t think that Count Michael was an effective leader, or ever would be one. He accepted direction from the unelected leaders of the LPC, which was a bad idea. As for “cheerleading” for Vladimir Putin, I think that Putin is in fact a rather dangerous character; but not so dangerous as your favourite, the obscene Obama. Murmansk? My naval uncle visited it a few times in 1943-45 with the Royal Navy and didn’t like it.

  31. The real battle in politics is this battle over standing, your right to get a hearing as the person you are. Once the swift-boat attacks hit their target, once he failed to reply, Kerry could talk, but no one was listening. He had lost his standing. Once my opponents said I was just visiting, I lost mine. I could speak, but I couldn’t be heard
    Ignatieff is so condescending of the masses he ignores the real issue. The real issue was not the mere accusation of “just visiting”; it was the fact that so many people knew deep inside that the accusation was actually true, notwithstanding the denials by both Ignatieff and the Liberal Party. That shortly after he resigned from professional politics he should prove the accusations true by simply moving back to Harvard would remove all remaining doubt from those still holding doubts. That after proving the accusation true, he should then write such an article from a foreign post is the height of arrogance.

  32. Enkidu >
    “Count Iggula may be a better and more honest man than Shiny Pony, John Lewis, but then again, that is a pretty low bar.”
    I see The Phantom beat me to it, anyway…..
    “Cockroaches are insects of the order Blattodea, sometimes called Blattaria, of which about 30 species out of 4,600[1] total are associated with human habitats. About four species are well known as pests.[2][3]” – Wiki……..
    At the end of the day their all cockroaches!

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