The Liberal Leadership Race

Actually "race" is far too animated a term. It's more like the Liberal Leadership Potato Sack Competition.

Scott Brison, the token openly-gay Conservative-cum-Liberal MP from the Annapolis Valley has thrown his name into the stew. Finally a little colour! It's about time, this non-event is only interesting by virtue of the fact that all the potentially clear front-runners decided they did not to become the leader of a party that could lose to a guy like Stephen Harper. It is admirable for a captain to go down with a sinking ship, but to report for duty when the ship is resting on the ocean floor is just stupid.

I thought Frank McKenna had a lock on the job. Chris was sure it would be Brian Tobin. Allan Rock? Lloyd Axeworthy? Beaker (aka John Manley, who bears a remarkable, frightening resemblance to Dr Bunson Honeydew's faithful assistant on the Muppet Show)? Squealing Sheila Copps? Hedy (short for Headcase?) Fry? Nope, not a one. They all ran screaming into the night.Belinda Stronach decided not to run because her mastery of the french language n'est pas si grand. Sure Belinda, it had nothing to do with the fact that you want nothing to do with riding a dead horse.....

So now we have political heavyweights like Joe Volpe, Michael Ignatieff (the "celebrity" candidate), Maurizio Beviacqua, Martha Hall Findlay, Stephane Dion, and as of Monday 24 April, maybe Carolyn Bennett, and Bob Rae, just for comedic relief. Y-A-W-N.

Stephen Harper must be thinking God is smiling at him.....this motley crew is making him look competent. Pierre Trudeau, where are you when Canada needs some drama? Even dead, you are more likely to challenge the Harpies.Thank God for the NDP. Go Jack go!!