mr_trudo (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mr_trudo) wrote,@ 2006-05-15 21:59:00 |
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Liberal Leadership Update
I just checkout the three sites of the one's I think have a real chance of winnig: Dryden, Rae, and Ignatieff and oh Kennedy.
I tend to look at policies first but their appearance and attitude also makes big difference.
Dryden talks about the environment first, then the need for a universial childcare program, keeping up with the Liberal history of tax cuts and debt reduction, and more money for education. Beard or No Beard, he looks like Goran Perrson, the Swedish PM, who I saw. If only he were a bit more of a social democrat.
Rae talks about the 3 Ks: Kyoto, Kelowna, and Kids. He claims he left the NDP not out of a change of beliefs but to my understand, he wanted to become Prime Minister and it's way more realistic to do it with the Liberals than NDP. haha.
Ignatieff still creeps me out. I am torn by his overly naive and idealistic rhetotic of parentisitc imperialism inorder to avoid genocides and other human rights abuses. I do like his strong position of a strong central government which essentially means increases in social spending.
Rae comes out as the New Labour social democrat with plenty of free markets and social spending increases, with a more centrist pro-education Dryden and Ignatieff as Canada's Tony Blair. Kennedy is just... there. I am rooting for Rae. I also like him personally.
In the end, I don't think the Liberal Party has changed ideologically nor will it depending on it's leader. They are focusing on issues people are unhappy about, the Conservatives are ignoring or making worse, or both.
As for Kennedy, I like this comment the best:
"The Tories proposition is lazy. They ask, “What do you want today? I’ll give you some of your money back and I’ll give you someone to blame. And you don’t have to worry about your neighbours.” That’s not a vision for a country like Canada."
I just checkout the three sites of the one's I think have a real chance of winnig: Dryden, Rae, and Ignatieff and oh Kennedy.
I tend to look at policies first but their appearance and attitude also makes big difference.
Dryden talks about the environment first, then the need for a universial childcare program, keeping up with the Liberal history of tax cuts and debt reduction, and more money for education. Beard or No Beard, he looks like Goran Perrson, the Swedish PM, who I saw. If only he were a bit more of a social democrat.
Rae talks about the 3 Ks: Kyoto, Kelowna, and Kids. He claims he left the NDP not out of a change of beliefs but to my understand, he wanted to become Prime Minister and it's way more realistic to do it with the Liberals than NDP. haha.
Ignatieff still creeps me out. I am torn by his overly naive and idealistic rhetotic of parentisitc imperialism inorder to avoid genocides and other human rights abuses. I do like his strong position of a strong central government which essentially means increases in social spending.
Rae comes out as the New Labour social democrat with plenty of free markets and social spending increases, with a more centrist pro-education Dryden and Ignatieff as Canada's Tony Blair. Kennedy is just... there. I am rooting for Rae. I also like him personally.
In the end, I don't think the Liberal Party has changed ideologically nor will it depending on it's leader. They are focusing on issues people are unhappy about, the Conservatives are ignoring or making worse, or both.
As for Kennedy, I like this comment the best:
"The Tories proposition is lazy. They ask, “What do you want today? I’ll give you some of your money back and I’ll give you someone to blame. And you don’t have to worry about your neighbours.” That’s not a vision for a country like Canada."
