The media who were criticizing Justin Trudeau and his Liberal supporters for a permitting “coronation” instead of a leadership contest?

Yeah, well, they’re the same geniuses now criticizing Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal supporters for wanting the Ontario Premier to enter the leadership race, and thereby make it a contest and not a coronation.

I swear to God: these guys are the type of people who demand crucifixion, and then complain about the view.

Rule of thumb: when they say to do something, do the polar opposite.

You can’t lose.

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We’ve been asked to play at Strummerfest in K-W, on the tenth anniversary of his passing. Practiced last night. Our ‘Bubbles’ video, for those who care what we still sound like, below. (Oh, and our new LP is being sold everywhere, now.)

In part, yes, I am posting this to drive down that ‘As It Happens’ clip, below, so that the damn thing doesn’t reopen every damn time I refresh the damn page.

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Now, then.

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Is it ever a good idea to attack the guy without whom you wouldn’t have been elected in the first place? The guy you left high and dry to go to Ottawa? To attack him, a potential leadership candidate, on behalf of a declared leadership candidate?* To give high-sounding civics lessons, when you couldn’t even get re-elected in your own seat?

Or is it better strategy to understand that there has always been something else going on here?

Questions, questions.

UPDATE: And here’s a gem from the archives. There’s a lot more.

The Globe And Mail
Mon Oct 16 2006
Page: A1

…The heated exchanges involved three of the four major contenders, leaving out Gerard Kennedy, who warned later that the internal attacks threaten the unity and renewal of the Liberal Party.

“Unity isn’t just language, it’s what you actually do. I’m in this race because I believe we need someone new that can draw this party together. There’s still some old battles being fought on this stage,” he said.

*UPDATED TWICE*: I have been told, and I accept, that what Kennedy did was not done to boost anyone else.  So that speculation on my part was wrong.  My criticism of him biting the hand that long fed him, however, remains.  Kennedy should read John McKay’s very perceptive comments, at the bottom of this story.

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I don’t recall saying that Trudeau was the only solution. But he’s a great, great guy.

Anyway, here I am back in The Charlatan – thirty years after I was an editor there. I grow old, I grow old, etc.

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I knew there was a reason why I admire her so much.

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Right here!

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I’m all for it, in this case. Anyone else?

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Yes.

Yes yes yes.

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