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Originally Posted by Slava
I would much rather a race with ideas and debates. The reality is the one of the best 'ideas' candidates in the race is Deborah Coyne (IMO, for whatever that's worth), but she has zero chance of winning. There are also people like Joyce Murray who is very different from the now departed Garneau or Trudeau.
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I guess my problem is this was never a leadership race it was designed specifically to appoint Trudeau. Good ideas don't matter in the Liberal party anymore. I wanted to see Garneau fight because I believe strongly that he is a person that's worth listening to and leadership worthy.
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Originally Posted by Slava;4131429I
just find it amusing that Garneau drops and we have a page of CPC supporters saying he should man up and stay in. Why? The writing is on the wall? Basically all he would be doing is attacking Trudeau and get to see those attacks replayed in CPC attack ads in the next election (if they wait that long). The thing that the polls continually bear though is that a Trudeau-led LPC is a solid challenger to the CPC. The next election might be very interesting.
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Those attacks are going to come anyways. Between skipping his job to go get money at speaking engagements, whining about press coverage from media that aren't friendly to him to his stances on Quebec and his stupid comments about Alberta, I don't think there was much more ammo that a proper fight would bring out.
the polls are irrelevant at this point, he's still not only very much in the honeymoon period, but the leadership race was built and designed for him to look strong compared to the other candidates.
Give it a few months and it will start to slip especially if he's named the leader of the Liberal party and expected to perform like he has two ounces worth of brains in his head.
I think that even Elizabeth May has probably more leadership credential then Junior does.