Comment 62756

By Shempatolla (registered) - website | Posted April 26, 2011 at 19:17:58 in reply to Comment 62719

"Mr. Ignatieff has simply described how the system works. He has been roundly criticized by the punditocracy for failing to devise some clever evasion and thus opening himself up to charges of opportunism like the ones levelled against him by Shemaptolla."

If it walks like a duck.......

Mr Ignatieff did not come back to Canada to be the Leader of the Opposition. He came back to be PM. Funny thing happened on the way to the Forum. He found himself the leader of a rump party with two strong holds in the country, neither of which is representative of the values and views of the majority of Canadians from coast to coast.

Further because Mr Harper (love him or hate him) has very successfully moved the CPC and has governed from the center, Mr Ignatieff has not been able to gain any traction there, particularly when fiscally conservative Liberals can see themselves voting for the CPC. He has thus been forced WAY left of where he is comfortable (read anything he has ever written as proof), by the lefty wing in the LPC, and has thus embarked on this ruinous course he currently finds himself on.

My thought is that the left wing has pushed Mr Ignatieff off the election plank by prodding him with thoughts of "an arrangement" with the NDP or whomever so that he may become PM. I believe their end game is much more Machiavellian however and knowing that they cannot and will not win this election, they are prepared to sacrifice Captain Harvard and send him on his way so as to annoint their boy Gerrrard ASAP.

Cheers

Greg Galante

Hamilton

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