Dear Liberal Party Fucktards

As I scan through the centre/left/progressive type blogs there is a general impression that Iggy the loser will ascend to the leadership of the Liberal party and that Rae the loser should simply step aside. Some are calling for Iggy's installation, as though he were some sort of kitchen appliance, foregoing the ugliness of discussion, debate or having to deal with the rabble that actually make up the party membership. Well I guess no one should be surprised that the idea of discussion and debate would be divisive, we can pretty much acknowledge that the Liberals are a pack of fractious idiots by this point. I remain convinced that Dion's squalid run as leader was not defeated merely by the Cons and their smear campaign. I have no doubt that the dismal defense and counter attack by the Grits during the last election was poor, hapless Stephane having his legs cut out from under him by his own team. And by team, I mean the disingenuous Ignatieff and his supporters.

I'm not a big fan of either Rae or Ignatieff, I don't see either as being attractive to Canadians at the voting booth. For right or wrong, Rae will forever carry the stigma of his failed run as Premiere of Ontario. And Ignatieff can waffle and offer mea culpas until his head falls off, he supported the war in Iraq and he made excuses for "coercive interrogation techniques" aka torture. Not to mention that he has all of the charisma of Bob Stanfield and hey, we already have a narcissistic neo-con asshole at the head of a political party in Canada. Anyway, back to this whole notion of trying to short circuit the leadership process so the Liberals can get back to failing against the Cons instead of just failing amongst themselves.

If there were a lick of clever in that sad and dying party, they would knock their petty heads together and have a little confab. Yes there should be a debate between the two candidates left in the running. Yes the party should make as much noise about the debate as possible, get as much media as they can drag away from the bar and go for the throat, giving no quarter. And that debate should have one and only one topic, how to damage, defeat and destroy the Stephen Harper Party. Period. Let the membership write in their votes, phone them in, go by riding polls or whatever mechanism involves the most members and pisses off the fewest. Make the damn debate a couple of hours where the two highest profile Liberals in the country get to kick the living crap out of Stephen Harper. Youtube it, blog it and let the country know that there is an alternative, that there is unity in the party when it comes to smashing Harper, exposing his lies and keeping him in check. Let them focus on dragging Harper back into the light of day, In and Out scandal, RCMP executing a warrant against the Conservative Party offices, firing public servants for partisan reasons, environmental inaction, economic incompetence... you name it. Drag each and every failing, flaw and foible out into the light of day and elect the leader that best smashes Harper's ugly ideas back into his fat face.

Is that such a difficult concept for the Liberal Party of Canada to grasp? Evidently. Why fight a common enemy when they can kick each other in the shins, idiots.