Mighty Intellect
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Location: in town
March 30th, 2008, 10:34 PM
Dion's advisers want Ignatieff demoted
Some of Stephane Dion's top advisers are planning to press the Liberal leader in the coming days to dump Michael Ignatieff as deputy leader, CTV News has learned.
...some in the Dion camp believe that Ignatieff, Dion's former leadership rival, is privately undermining the Liberal leader with critical and disdainful remarks.
Earlier this week, Dion demanded an end to the political sniping within his party after several shots were made at his leadership.
Some of his advisers want Dion to project a tougher image as leader. They argue it would send a strong message to party dissidents, by demoting the politician perceived as his greatest threat.
"These people are using the example of Jean Chretien when (he) said, 'You know, I should have dealt with Paul Martin earlier,'" said Jean Lapierre, a political commenter and one-time Liberal cabinet minister.
When the House of Commons resumes again Monday, the Liberals will have two new star MPs in Bob Rae and Martha Hall Findlay. A demotion of Ignatieff could be justified as a move to allow the new MPs equal billing, but others say that it would escalate the party's internal sniping into outright war.
read all here: http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/Top..._deputy_080330
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It is a real tragedy that at this critical time the Liberals can't get their act together!! They might as well go into the Steel Cage and stay there!!!
I believe it is never a wise choice to have ones rival as the second fiddle!! Makes for bad blood and sour friendship!!
Who actually is Harper's deputy? Wouldn't be MacKay, would it?
Dion's advisers want Ignatieff demoted
Some of Stephane Dion's top advisers are planning to press the Liberal leader in the coming days to dump Michael Ignatieff as deputy leader, CTV News has learned.
...some in the Dion camp believe that Ignatieff, Dion's former leadership rival, is privately undermining the Liberal leader with critical and disdainful remarks.
Earlier this week, Dion demanded an end to the political sniping within his party after several shots were made at his leadership.
Some of his advisers want Dion to project a tougher image as leader. They argue it would send a strong message to party dissidents, by demoting the politician perceived as his greatest threat.
"These people are using the example of Jean Chretien when (he) said, 'You know, I should have dealt with Paul Martin earlier,'" said Jean Lapierre, a political commenter and one-time Liberal cabinet minister.
When the House of Commons resumes again Monday, the Liberals will have two new star MPs in Bob Rae and Martha Hall Findlay. A demotion of Ignatieff could be justified as a move to allow the new MPs equal billing, but others say that it would escalate the party's internal sniping into outright war.
read all here: http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/Top..._deputy_080330
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It is a real tragedy that at this critical time the Liberals can't get their act together!! They might as well go into the Steel Cage and stay there!!!
I believe it is never a wise choice to have ones rival as the second fiddle!! Makes for bad blood and sour friendship!!
Who actually is Harper's deputy? Wouldn't be MacKay, would it?
Jerk Extraordinaire
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Location: Atlantic Canada
Location: Atlantic Canada
March 31st, 2008, 10:52 AM
Telling your party to shut up about your failures doesn't make those failures go away. Dion sucks as a leader and a politician. If he somehow becomes the next Prime Minister, we're all screwed.
Demote Ignatieff and they will completely fail... hell, he's the only one in that party who seems to sound like he knows what he's talking about.
Telling your party to shut up about your failures doesn't make those failures go away. Dion sucks as a leader and a politician. If he somehow becomes the next Prime Minister, we're all screwed.
Demote Ignatieff and they will completely fail... hell, he's the only one in that party who seems to sound like he knows what he's talking about.
Chief Mogrifier
Posts: 8,889
March 31st, 2008, 11:04 AM
Quoting Praxius
We should remember that Ignatieff has spent more time in the U.S. than Canada and he should be thrown out. Dion might not be everybody's ideal leader but I strongly prefer him over Harper. Brains over bluster.
Telling your party to shut up about your failures doesn't make those failures go away. Dion sucks as a leader and a politician. If he somehow becomes the next Prime Minister, we're all screwed.
Demote Ignatieff and they will completely fail... hell, he's the only one in that party who seems to sound like he knows what he's talking about.
Demote Ignatieff and they will completely fail... hell, he's the only one in that party who seems to sound like he knows what he's talking about.
