Comments on: The Liberal Version of Going Rogue http://jnarvey.com/2009/11/22/the-liberal-version-of-going-rogue/ The essays, nerdy updates and literary adventures of Jonathon Narvey Tue, 22 May 2012 19:09:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: jnarvey http://jnarvey.com/2009/11/22/the-liberal-version-of-going-rogue/comment-page-1/#comment-2413 jnarvey Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:55:43 +0000 http://jnarvey.com/?p=2146#comment-2413 When you live in an ideological echo chamber, it's not hard to become deaf to political realities. Sad, really. When you live in an ideological echo chamber, it’s not hard to become deaf to political realities. Sad, really.

]]> By: Pete Quily http://jnarvey.com/2009/11/22/the-liberal-version-of-going-rogue/comment-page-1/#comment-2394 Pete Quily Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:55:18 +0000 http://jnarvey.com/?p=2146#comment-2394 Paul Martin treated Jean Chretien the same way that Jean Chretien treated John Turner. Revisionist historian, Dion's wife Janine Krieber says "If the Toronto elites had been more in tune, humble and realist" What? if Stephane Dion had been more in tune, humble and realistic he would have won the election. He was none of those 3 words. Those were his biggest problems. "A party where work ethic and competence would be respected and where smiles would be real." Dion may have worked hard and he may have been a competent minister. But as a national leader he was politically incompetent in the extreme. He committed political malpractice. He was the most incompetent Leader of the Liberal party in my memory, possibly in history. The smart, effective political spouse is supposed to balance out the areas in which the politician is weak, not to reinforce the weaknesses and increase the denial. Paul Martin treated Jean Chretien the same way that Jean Chretien treated John Turner.

Revisionist historian, Dion’s wife Janine Krieber says

“If the Toronto elites had been more in tune, humble and realist”

What? if Stephane Dion had been more in tune, humble and realistic he would have won the election. He was none of those 3 words. Those were his biggest problems.

“A party where work ethic and competence would be respected and where smiles would be real.” Dion may have worked hard and he may have been a competent minister. But as a national leader he was politically incompetent in the extreme. He committed political malpractice. He was the most incompetent Leader of the Liberal party in my memory, possibly in history.

The smart, effective political spouse is supposed to balance out the areas in which the politician is weak, not to reinforce the weaknesses and increase the denial.

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