Stephen Taylor reports that Frank McKenna, former New Brunswick Premier, is unlikely to run for Liberal leader.
ht: National Newswatch
Well, I would add that a Liberal-connected source of mine said pretty much the same to me, that McKenna has privately already said "no". This was just after the election.
This source of mine also correctly indicated to me that Stephane Dion would indicate his intention to step down during the week that he actually indicated so... before there was any indication in the media to that effect. He also informed me about a private matter regarding the former Liberal MP in my riding before there was any evidence publicly about it. So I place a lot of stock in my source's McKenna information and add it to Taylor's report.
You know, Liberals... they have big mouths, actually, and like to blab even to those who they know are card-carrying Conservatives... well, after all, they're known for their loose lips... except not so much when talking to the MSM, that is. So if you know a connected Liberal who likes to gossip about what's going on in the party, well, that person is a potential gold mine of information that might come in handy sometime... wink, wink, elbow, elbow... Lucky for us Tories, Liberals have a self-control problem...
Looks, therefore, like McKenna, despite all those Liberals desperate for this "star" candidate to enter the running for leader, isn't going to bother.
Why would he? Why would he want to go through unpredictably-many years in the wilderness to attempt to rebuild a party that resists institutional and cultural change anyway? It could very well prove a waste of his time. As it could very well prove a waste of anyone's time.
Dominic LeBlanc? Amateur, without intellect. Bring him on. Harper'll effortlessly sweep the floor with that wild mop of hair on Dom's big head. All Dom's got going for him is his big, foully partisan Librano mouth and the fact that his daddy was a big name in Canadian politics, not that it matters. Of course, Justin Trudeau could be similarly described...
Speaking of Trudeau, really, gimme a break. Sorry, Justy, but I'm afraid that your daddy's performance isn't all that fondly recalled by everyone, particularly in the West and Quebec. So if you would think you could ride the coattails of Daddy to leadership and power, well, if you want to admit that Alberta and Quebec will not be impressed (NEP and getting the Constitution signed by everyone but Quebec, etc.), well... And there's the matter of the defective Charter, which actually proved a Trojan Horse in which the Far Left was able to cheat and lie its way to all sorts of crazy legislative and legal crap, with the judiciary and all that invalid "reading-in", "interpreting" and so on, the unconstitutional judge-made law, you know, just like we see happening in the United States, with their Left-wing radical "judges", too...
