If Ignatieff Wins the Liberals Will Lose the Next Election

I may only be an occasional blogger who couldn't even get elected as a delegate, but when I see what's coming down the pike I'm usually right. When Mansbridge was talking about Stockwell Day being good looking and likely to get the women's vote, I laughed, and when they said he had a chance of winning the country, I laughed hysterically. When the world was all agog with Martin, I predicted he would destroy the party and the country - well he certainly laid the foundation for that. Now I am predicting categorically that Ignatieff will never lead the Liberal Party to victory. The moment of truth was tonight when I watched him say re Quebec's nationhood - and I paraphrase - "just select a leader and when the time is right....." Does he really think that that's how democracy works??!! He really thinks - it would appear - that he is God's gift to Canada - "just leave it in my hands" - well I don't think so. I never thought I'd ever say this but he's scarier than Harper.

The Left Thing

One of the reasons the extreme right is able to win anything is their comfort with playing dirty.So we should no longer say "The right thing" but rather "The Left thing". Case in point:Once Mr T puts in his new discrimination legislation, lefties will be able to ask plumbers, carpenters, the management of Safeway, for example, if they espouse fundamentalist anti-women religious beliefs and then decide whether or not to do business with them. But lefties don't believe in discrimination. So it is a win win for Mr T. Or maybe not, maybe some of us will be tempted to do it - just once - maybe a major corporation run by lefties will put some anti-right policies in place-hiring, purchasing, rentals, that sort of thing. Could get interesting.