Chretien: Liberal-NDP merger "inevitable"

[RogueBeaver]

What's inevitable is that he won't give up on running the LPC by remote control, and no one has the stones to tell him where to get off. Or more precisely, those that do are either unwilling (Rae) or unable (Goodale, Brison).

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/09/06/pol-chretien-merger.html

[RogueBeaver]

I find it interesting that Liberal apparatchiki are the only people who seem to think a merger is either possible or preferable.

Apart from Chretien and a few journalists, no one takes this idea seriously.

[RogueBeaver]

No. no. no. A thousand times no. Liberals are welcome to join the party of course. But any merger would cause many in the party to splinter off. It didn't happen when the right merged, but conservatives are less idealist. (in that they are more willing to sacrifice values for political gain). People in the NDP are less likely to do it.

Also there's the small matter of the Liberals not actually being a party of the left.

\normally IO'd swear at you for thisfor saying this since I'm drunk, but you are actualloy right. Not only are you right but you are wrong but you are right but for the future.

what I mean
is if the Liberals want to win... they NEED to move to the RIGHT. not to the left.

As a friggin card carrying friggin liberal I support the move to the right.

So would you vote for Brison as leader?