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Originally Posted by Rerun
I think you are being overly optimistic about what effect this will have on the Liberals in the next election.
Your next potential leader, Bob Rae, is involved up to his neck in this. As for your other potential leader, Iggy.... he apparently is beginning to see this deal as a poisoned chalice (as some on the national news put it), and he is backing off in his support (when was the last time you saw Iggy being interviewed on tv and showing his support?). The Liberals will wear this rag for a long time. Come the next election, all you will hear from the the Conservatives is how the Liberals made a backroom secret deal with the socialist NDP and the separtist Bloc to take over the goverment of Canada and this shows you can't trust them.
This deal will be very bad for the Liberals in the long run. They've really shot themselves in the foot.
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Yup, this is going to hurt them for a while. Thing is, Bob Rae really doesn't care, because as I understand it, Ontario will never vote for him. Ignatieff has the most to lose in my opinion. He was the only electable liberal candidate, and this may change that. Fact is he supported it at least for a time, and while he may be backing off in support, he certainly hasn't come out against it either. The only chance he has to be elected IMO is to take his name out of the running for party leadership for now, and hope he gets another chance in a couple of years when it's all over. Then again, hiding doesn't really show true leadership. This whole issue seems like the liberals are giving up long term gains for short and very limited power.