314...Ignatieff Talks Self Off Ledge

Reads the headline in today's National Post.

The complete headline in John Ivision's article this morning is:

Ignatieff talks self off ledge; Liberals in no shape for a summer election

Beauty headline, eh? And as Mr. Ivision goes on to write, the Tories seem more prepared to hit the polls than the Libs, Dips or Le Bloc with 21 times as many candidates registered with Elections Canada than the Liberals. The fact that the Liberal Party is in disarray indicates that when the writ is dropped they will simply impose candidates, without the fuss of nomination battles. The Liberals could simply re-nominate everyone who ran last time; considering the election was less than a year ago this will be relatively facile. In addition to the party's 77 MPs, 18 former Liberal MPs are said to be running or are thinking about it. This of course is a problem for Mikey I. because it is same old same old same old not the new blood that Mr. Ignatieff would surely like to the Liberal fold.

Better later than sooner. In this writer's view the next Prime Minister of Canada would be better served by chilling out and waiting until the fall of 2010 to take out the Conservatives.

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