When will it end?
So, the Liberal party has had their "super" weekend and elected their delegates for their Leadership convention. Seems like the end is in sight. What are we at now, Month 82 of 86, in this incredibly long leadership campaign?
First thing I noticed was that somebody actually voted for Volpe. Heck, he even managed to beat out two other candidates (Scott Brison and Martha Hall-Findlay). And he's basically tied with Ken Dryden, who I thought would have had at least a couple of Hab's fans vote for him. For those interested in the unoffical results, check out the Liberal.ca page here. And for some great analysis of the results check out Greg Morrow's blog.
So far, it seems that all this weekend managed to do, was take this from a 8 man (oops, person) race down to a 4 man race. And each one of the different campaign's supporting blogs have been explaining why these results are good for their respective leaders campaign.
And we still have almost two months to go in this thing.
So far, my favourite is Michael Ignatieff and I do hope he wins. Think this comes from the fact that he doesn't come off as your typical politician. He has had some stumbles but many of those seem to stem from the MSM's obsession with 15-30 second sound bites, whereas his positions are more complex and can't be reduced to a one or two sentence answer. I have much more respect for a politician that can explain himself, even if I don't agree with his position, than with one that has so-called "media friendly" quips ready to go. Basically, I'd like to see a politician with a good head on his shoulders, not a goddamn parrot.
Think this all comes back to my pollyanna-ish idea that politics would actually come back to a true debate about ideas and policy, rather than simply attacking the other guy for votes.
First thing I noticed was that somebody actually voted for Volpe. Heck, he even managed to beat out two other candidates (Scott Brison and Martha Hall-Findlay). And he's basically tied with Ken Dryden, who I thought would have had at least a couple of Hab's fans vote for him. For those interested in the unoffical results, check out the Liberal.ca page here. And for some great analysis of the results check out Greg Morrow's blog.
So far, it seems that all this weekend managed to do, was take this from a 8 man (oops, person) race down to a 4 man race. And each one of the different campaign's supporting blogs have been explaining why these results are good for their respective leaders campaign.
And we still have almost two months to go in this thing.
So far, my favourite is Michael Ignatieff and I do hope he wins. Think this comes from the fact that he doesn't come off as your typical politician. He has had some stumbles but many of those seem to stem from the MSM's obsession with 15-30 second sound bites, whereas his positions are more complex and can't be reduced to a one or two sentence answer. I have much more respect for a politician that can explain himself, even if I don't agree with his position, than with one that has so-called "media friendly" quips ready to go. Basically, I'd like to see a politician with a good head on his shoulders, not a goddamn parrot.
Think this all comes back to my pollyanna-ish idea that politics would actually come back to a true debate about ideas and policy, rather than simply attacking the other guy for votes.
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posted by Daz at 11:00 a.m.
2 Comments:
Daz,
I agree with your support of Iggy... that's exactly why I like him, because he screws up saying what he actually means, God forbid.
Yeah, its way better than seeing a politico tripping over themselves trying to frame their message to fit whatever happens to be popular in public opinion polls at the moment.
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