Liberals On The Campaign Trail

MANLEY: DION DELUSIONAL Manley: "As a Liberal, I believe the first step for my party is to replace Stéphane Dion as leader with someone whose first job is to rebuild the Liberal Party, rather than leading a coalition with the NDP" ... The notion that the public would accept Stéphane Dion as prime minister, after having resoundingly rejected that possibility a few weeks earlier, was delusional at best" ...A reader responds: "Manley just became the front-runner. The Liberals are dead if they pick someone who danced with the separatist devils. That includes Rae and Iggy. By the time of the convention, Liberal delegates will have one goal in mind, and that will be to wipe this stain - and those who put it there - from the voters' minds. Manley's head must be spinning to see the leadership set out on a platter, his for the taking. All he has to do is condemn Iggy and Rae and remind people that these two threatened the very future of their party, and of our country, over personal ambition."

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Bob Rae casts off his Liberal disguise, embraces his NDP past, and plots for the future

Friday, December 05, 2008 at 01:43 PM

Bob Rae, former NDP premier of Ontario, and now a Liberal running to replace Stephane Dion, has struggled to reconcile those two elements of his political life.

Most recently, it appeared that Rae was rejecting his NDP past, in a roundabout way, in order to establish his Liberal bona fides.

But with the advent of the Liberal-NDP-Bloc Quebecois separatist coalition, Bob Rae has emerged as the new booster of the NDP within the Liberal Party.