Looks Like he Picked a Bad Week to Give Up Warren Kinsella
The party base understood in 2006 and Canadian citizens are understanding now. Ignatieff’s supporters didn’t do their homework. They didn’t read his books. They contented themselves with his ability to navigate the cocktail circuit.”
“Some of them are enraged today. I hear: ‘Why didn’t anyone tell us about him?'”
“We told you, loud and clear. You didn’t listen.’and
“But they (party members) didn’t accept the 26 per cent (of the popular vote in the last election). Now we’re at 23.”
It’s worth saying that it’s not that they didn’t try and read his books but, like me, they picked up The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror, and slept like a baby for two weeks, unable to keep their poor weary eyes open for more than a page and a half of his pompous drivel.
Then the front thrusts:
Ross Rebagliati, former Olympic snowboarder with the Clitonesque excuses, now running for the Liberal party in Okanagan-Coquihalla BC, gives an interview to McLeans:
McL: …did the Liberals approach you, or did you approach them?
RR: They approached me. It came up over lunch and I thought about it for a few minutes, and by the end of the meal, I had decided to do it.RR:… We’re sending our Canadian soldiers overseas to create a democracy in a foreign land, and a lot of them are paying the ultimate price. And we can’t even bring ourselves to vote here, when we have that right and privilege? To me, that’s unacceptable.
McL: Have you been a regular voter?
RR: No I haven’t.McL: Are there other politicians you admire?
RR: Sure, Trudeau… he had a cool car and all the girls liked him.McL: What will you be doing during the Olympics this February?
RR: I’ll be in both Whistler and Vancouver… but I don’t have a single ticket. But as far as I’m concerned I’m just going to flash my gold medal. (Note: he’s entitled to his entitlements).McL: Are you in favour of legalization?
RR: I’m not really going to go there right now. I think the media obviously has a big opportunity to corner me as a one-issue guy, but I don’t want to be that guy.McL:…What’s your campaign theme song going to be?
RR: I like the Bob Marley song Get Up, Stand Up.
When your star candidates are this good, what can go wrong?
All that good news in Liberal la-la land just makes a guy want to roll up a big fatty.
That is really scrapping the bottom of the barrel for candidates. Just write a book, or be a famous snowboarder, and you to could become leader of the liberal party, no brains required.