Is It Friday Yet?

If you're like me, a Liberal who is maintaining optimism, these past couple of weeks have been pretty brutal. In fact, I'm feeling beat up, in a way that allows me to stand again, only to be knocked back. But this isn't about me. This is about what is going on in the party.

National Newswatch is reporting that Duffy broke some news tonight, that is, another potential candidate for the Lib's, Pierre-Luc Bellerose, has left the party. (The fact that Don Newman announced this at the opening of his program, apparently means nothing.)

While this is bad news of course, with perhaps more implications than are obvious at the moment, I also see a purging here. To compare this to Garneau's departure, I think is wrong. He did not leave the party and indeed he stated just how committed he remains to supporting the Liberals as the next government. That said, Bellerose seems intent on causing trouble. How he and others believe that this will be helpful to the party absolutely escapes me. In fact, I'd go as far to say that perhaps he didn't have what it takes to run in the first place, if he doesn't understand this basic fact.

Sigh, now Jamie Carroll is demanding more than a year's salary, because his reputation has been besmirched. (I love that word, the sound of it defines it.) Someone get to Jamie quickly and stanch the flow of that particular wound, now!

What seems more than apparent here is the fact that there are only too many in the party ready to run to the media, blackberry people like Duffy and the CBC and those are the people that must be shut down. Good grief, how tough can it be to figure that bit out? The media obviously know who they are, (note to media, I'm not trying to take away your sources. The Lib's are playing by the rules, but the con's are not...thus your focus. Think.) How difficult can it be for the Lib's to identify who is hostile in their ranks? Do it people! Stand up, identify them and let's get this over with now.

Here's my take. It was clear from the outset that the Lib's had a history of internal strife and that was not erased with the appointment of a new leader. Dion may be well above this and I believe he is. I also have faith that the other leadership candidates are not keen to see the decimation of the party. Their supporters on the other hand continue to behave as if it's the "night after". We've seen it on the blogs. I won't mention names, but you know who you are. What you think you're achieving is beyond me. You're sticking the long knife into your own belly. Foolish, juvenile and sure to end in pain.

I get the impression, especially amongst some bloggers, that they think they are courageous. They aren't. What takes courage is to admit that "the people have spoken, I don't agree, but I'll work for the cause". That is courage my friends.

So, here we are, watching what had to happen. We have to purge ourselves of those who are most interested in their own self interest. They don't care about the party and it's direction, they care that perhaps their guy would do it differently.

Perhaps "their" guys could come out a little more strongly. Perhaps they could say that they've seen the platform and support it fully.

And media, I know this is tasty stuff and I do believe in the "people's right to know"...but you're beginning to look like the proverbial sharks, smelling blood, or maybe, flies....draw your own conclusion. You're not looking at what Harper, etal is doing, the guy that hates you, remember? Btw, did anyone hear Bernier today at the UN? You think Dion speaks English badly?

When Duffy opens a segment with, "What's that word in German? Shade-N-Frood", we have to be a little worried about who is giving us information, no?

Schadenfreude, perhaps my most favourite word on the planet. The fact that a journalist used it, couldn't pronounce it, but used it with a smile on his face, is disturbing.

It's more disturbing to me that some Lib's are suffering from it.