Unlike most journalists in this country that have high hopes for Mr. Iffy and the Liberals, Angelo Persichilli doesn't, in this piece anyway. He thinks Mr. Iffy is a disappointment, calls the opposition a lame duck opposition.
Such high expectations, such a letdown
Initially considered a political contender, Ignatieff shows he lacks leadership skill
By Angelo Persichilli
"When Michael Ignatieff was lured back into Canadian politics, he was hailed as the new Pierre Trudeau and many were hoping that, finally, the new leader would give Canadians at least one reason to vote for the Liberals again.
After four years in Canada, two Conservative minority governments, and an economic crisis of gigantic proportions, Ignatieff has steadfastly refused to give Canadians that one reason why they should support him, aside from the childish argument that the other guys are bad."
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"A minority government is a lame duck government. But an opposition that cannot defeat a minority government is a lame duck opposition. And, the only thing worse than a government that doesn’t have the trust of the majority of its citizens, is when the citizens trust the opposition much less than the government itself."
Iffy's leadership numbers are not good according to the last Nik Nanos poll. Compare Iffy's numbers with the PM. PM Harper is heads and shoulders above him in all categories, he leads in all.
Clearly after the next election Iffy will probably be on his way back to Harvard. Wonder who's up next as leader? Will it be Bob Rae, Ruby Dhalla, Justin Trudeau, Martha Hall Findlay, Gerard Kennedy, Hedy Fry, or Domonic LeBlanc or someone else?The most trustworthy leader Stephen Harper: 25.0% (-4.3)
Jack Layton: 20.8% (+4.4)
Michael Ignatieff: 10.4% (-0.5)
Elizabeth May: 9.8% (+5.2)
Gilles Duceppe: 7.8% (+1.5)
None of them/Undecided: 26.2% (-6.4)The most competent leader Stephen Harper: 33.6% (-1.7)
Jack Layton: 14.2% (+3.4)
Michael Ignatieff: 13.9% (+0.6)
Gilles Duceppe: 6.5% (+0.8)
Elizabeth May: 3.4% (+1.1)
None of them/Undecided: 28.4% (-4.2)The leader with the best vision for Canada’s future Stephen Harper: 26.8% (-3.2)
Leadership Index Score Stephen Harper: 85.4 (-9.2)
Jack Layton: 17.2% (+3.2)
Michael Ignatieff: 16.0% (+1.2)
Elizabeth May: 6.4% (+3.6)
Gilles Duceppe: 2.9% (-0.5)
None of them/Undecided: 30.7% (-4.2)
Jack Layton: 52.2 (+11.0)
Michael Ignatieff: 40.3 (+1.3)
Elizabeth May: 19.6 (+9.9)
Gilles Duceppe: 17.2 (+1.8)
Michael Ignatieff, not a leader! He hasn't been a letdown for conservatives, we like him. Go Mr. Iffy!
BTW. I wonder if Mr. Iffy is disappointed this morning, that Team Canada defeated Team Russia in last nights hockey game.
Martha Hall Findlay, Gerard Kennedy, Hedy Fry, or Domonic LeBlanc or someone else....
ReplyDeleteAre their debts paid yet? Who will back them for the next election. Oops, I forgot the TD Bank is in their corner, right Mr. Ed?
--Alberta Bob---
Next up has to be young Trudeau. The liberal Party bigwigs seriously miscalculated Ignatieff's saleability to the Canadian people.
ReplyDeleteOne question I've never seen answered is, who's bright idea was it to ask Ignatieff to come back and rescue the LPC?
He has a similar background to Pierre Trudeau,rich,well educated, but the resemblance ends there. Trudeau was charismatic, and well experienced in Canadian politics, and he followed a well respected Liberal PM.
Ignatieff stated his disdain for parochial Canada many times over the years he lived somewhere else,Canada just wasn't "big league" to Iggy.
Since his less than triumphant return, we've witnessed a Liberal aristocrat with the education of Pierre Trudeau, and the charisma of Bob Stanfield. Ignatieff simply doesn't appeal to most of us ordinary Canadians, we can feel his condescension whenever he speaks or tries desperately to act like one of us. He looked just plain silly at the Calgary Stampede.
Ignatieff, when trying to interact with us,is as stiff as George Wallace would have been playing to a crowd in Watts. He looks ill -at-ease among the rabble. We're NOT his people.
Canada doesn't need a PM whose only qualification is that he is NOT Stephen Harper. We need a real leader who can relate to the plight of the average person, not a silver spoon aristocrat.
The LPC must produce better candidates for leader if they are to ever hope to get back to the throne.
DMorris
The next lib leadership is going to be a battle royal as it supposedly is to be a one member one vote selection process.
ReplyDeleteI expect the establishment will be wheeling and dealing trying to find a way to ensure their unwritten rule of alternation is "ob$erved".
"Canada doesn't need a PM whose only qualification is that he is NOT Stephen Harper. We need a real leader who can relate to the plight of the average person, not a silver spoon aristocrat."
ReplyDeleteDoesn't that kinda remind you of Barack Obama for President? He's not George Bush and is an elite? Has a hard time relating to the average American?
Have you guys taken a hard look, we are in the same boat as most nations that do not have a 'democratic media' we may be 'Free' in one sense but we are not in another as we can see the way the media treats the conservatives to the liberals. Iran venezuela and yes canada national media answers to their masters(aminajhad, chavez and LPOC).
ReplyDeleteSo whatever the liberals or chavez or the iranian president did and continue to do against their own nation and citizens is well coverup by their media.
Be prepared when the liberals come back, because it is not only they that be running this country; it will be ndp bloc and all their special radical groups that have been supporting the opposition parties. They too want their piece of the pie. Oh and don't forget their medias as well.
So whatever Ignatieff does is not a problem as long as he is a 'liberal' and not a conservative.
I wonder if the Liberals will have paid off their last leadership "loans" by the time the next race rolls around. I also wonder if elections Canada will close the loan loophole.
ReplyDelete"I wonder if the Liberals will have paid off their last leadership "loans" by the time the next race rolls around. I also wonder if elections Canada will close the loan loophole."
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't hold my breath on it. Don't expect Elections Canada do anything, they're too busy going after the CPC.