Iggy or Bob?

TenPenny

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I quote, yet again, Clyde Wells, the brightest politician to come out of Newfoundland in a long, long time.....if not ever:

"If you waded through Brian Tobin's deepest thoughts, you wouldn't get your ankles wet"

Bang on.

Tobin ain't got the smarts.

Ignatief and Rae both have big baggage, but they also have some brains......not so Mr. Tobin.

I've understood from friends on the rock, that it's Tobin's personal life and baggage that made him back away from public life as he did.

If that's true, you certainly won't see him enter this race.
 

SirJosephPorter

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Who is it going to be?

Trex, I don’t really care. Whoever wins, I will support the Liberal party. Liberal party is closest to my worldview, strong support for civil rights, minority rights, sound fiscal management (something conservatives seem to be sorely lacking), multiculturalism, environmentalism, not following USA’s lead blindly in everything (again, something conservatives seem to do by natural instinct) etc.

Liberal party represents my centre left politics very well. I don’t agree with Liberal party on everything, but there are sufficient areas of agreement so that I consider myself a liberal and a Liberal party supporter.

So I don’t really care who wins, they are all acceptable to me.
 

Socrates the Greek

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I said it earlier Tobin should not opted out the first time, now he need to re-think his options.

Good day Scratch, political chess is interesting to watch, Trudeau was a master in that game, a great example comes to mind when in 1979 Trudeau and the Liberals suffered a narrow defeat at the polls. A few months later, he announced his intention to resign as Liberal leader and to retire from public life. Three weeks after this announcement, the Progressive Conservative government of Joe Clark was defeated in the Commons and a new general election was called. Trudeau was persuaded by the Liberal caucus to remain as leader, and on 8 February 1980 - less than 3 months after his retirement - he was returned once again as prime minister with a parliamentary majority, thus accomplishing a remarkable resurrection.
 

Risus

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...and so would he ... plus he'd know when he was in office in Ontario.

Being an NDPer you obviously wouldn't recognize the truth if it hit you in the face, so I understand your non answers. He screwed Ontario, and will screw Canada if he ever became Prime Minister.
 

lone wolf

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Being an NDPer you obviously wouldn't recognize the truth if it hit you in the face, so I understand your non answers. He screwed Ontario, and will screw Canada if he ever became Prime Minister.

NDPer? You know this how? I recognize one great truth and that is you don't have a clue about what you speak. You just speak.