Partisan Self-Service at the Palais des Congres
Last night, the consensus was unanimous: Dion should win the Liberal leadership race.
Well, at least that was the consensus at my table -- one among many at the superbly-organized, well-attended Dal Poli Sci Xmas dinner at the Lord Nelson Hotel in Downtown Halifax.
Also at my table: Eric Lehre, a former bigwig in the Canadian navy and ex-commander of Canada's NATO forces.
His nugget of insight (not quite verbatim):
"What a consensus! A table full of political science graduate students thinks Dion should win, without exception... I suppose that means he probably won't!"
Rather than wax more poetic (or whatever) on the race and take stabs at who should win (Dion-Kennedy Hybrid?), who will win (Rae?), and who won't (Ignatieff?), however, I'll simply offer these two quotes, two "what if's" and "coulda-been's..."
(See if you can decipher the subject matter):
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=d02b0bf1-c325-4087-a6da-8249462862bc;
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2006/12/01/2575590-sun.html
Oh, and have you ever wondered what Belinda Stronach might look like with auburn hair? Tune into CBC...
Well, at least that was the consensus at my table -- one among many at the superbly-organized, well-attended Dal Poli Sci Xmas dinner at the Lord Nelson Hotel in Downtown Halifax.
Also at my table: Eric Lehre, a former bigwig in the Canadian navy and ex-commander of Canada's NATO forces.
His nugget of insight (not quite verbatim):
"What a consensus! A table full of political science graduate students thinks Dion should win, without exception... I suppose that means he probably won't!"
Rather than wax more poetic (or whatever) on the race and take stabs at who should win (Dion-Kennedy Hybrid?), who will win (Rae?), and who won't (Ignatieff?), however, I'll simply offer these two quotes, two "what if's" and "coulda-been's..."
(See if you can decipher the subject matter):
He is the Liberal leadership A-team -- smart, affable and fluently bilingual, an inspirational speaker with years of experience running a successful political party, winning election campaigns by historic margins and delivering good government.
By comparison, the eight remaining Liberal leadership candidates are B-teamers, for sure.
...
[He] cuts a forlorn figure here, wandering the hallways with the same old hangers-on and saying the same old things about his many priorities with his same old earnest urgency.Hints:He was politely ignored amid the frenzy of arm-twisting for second-ballot support between rival camps and negotiations among young (and not so young) delegates seeking to put those free Liberal condoms to good use after the hospitality suites close.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=d02b0bf1-c325-4087-a6da-8249462862bc;
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2006/12/01/2575590-sun.html
Oh, and have you ever wondered what Belinda Stronach might look like with auburn hair? Tune into CBC...
posted by C. LaRoche at
20:06
2...thoughts from my fellow Saturnalians:
There was a dinner party last night? Damn. That would have been fun.
As far as rah-rah yay-Liberal messages went, I liked Kennedy's the best. Rae's veggie "joke" was terrible and in poor taste. I was glad to see on Warren's blog that I'm not the only one who thought that Ignatieff looked a little loopy at the start of his speech.
Dion leapfrogging into third place is a strong development for him, and bodes well for his fortunes. I think that he has an outside shot of snagging this thing as a compromise between Rae and Iggy.
By
RGM, at Sat Dec 02, 07:41:00 a.m. AST
Third ballot results:
Iggy 1660 34.5
Dion 1782 37.0
Rae 1375 28.5 (and out)
Looks like the outside is becoming the inside.
Kennedy probably ended up having more influence on this convention than anyone else, if that influence only came after he dropped off the ballot...
By
C. LaRoche, at Sat Dec 02, 06:22:00 p.m. AST
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