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Old 05-01-2011, 05:48 PM   #279
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Originally Posted by GirlySports View Post
Trudeau once said the NDP were an illegitimate party. The entire point of being Liberal is to stomp on the NDP. You heard Ignatieff in the debate "at least we've been in power, you're only good enough for opposition". The Liberals will never form a coalition to make Layton PM, the old guard like Martin and Chretien and Liberal advisers would never allow it and as CaptaiCrunch said, a number of Liberals would cross the floor.
I remember talking to a heavily involved NDP supporter once just a few years ago, and I asked him about a merger of the left.

The first thing he did was snort in disgust and tell me that the Liberal's weren't a left party, they were a power party which meant that they would take any stance to keep power.

Then he informed me that the NDP role was not to merge with the Liberal's, it was to supplant then destroy the Liberals.
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