A Liberal Party to be led by Kennedys and Trudeaus forever

Ten years ago to this day, Gerard Michael Kennedy, like an good Roman Catholic Liberal, used his good work running executive director in Daily Bread Food Bank for a decade previous, to take this professional show of charity and make it into a political run for hope, with faith others would follow. After replacing former Ontario premier and New Democrat Bob Rae in a byelection to represent the York South constituency as its Member of Provincial Parliament in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Kennedy immediately entered into a fight between progressive left versus conservative right on the leadership convention floor finishing first on the first, second, third and fourth ballots. Finally on the fifth ballot, Kennedy succumbed to defeat at 4:25 a.m. on the 1st of Dec. 1996 at the Toronto Convention Centre by the bland, folksy underestimated, underappreciated and unpretentious candidate Dalton Mcguinty Junior.

Though Pierre Elliot Trudeau and his evergaining Trudeaumania placed first all the way through four ballots in 1968 at the Ottawa Civic Centre, it still took four ballots for the left to get just less than 51% past the right and their champion York West Member of Parliament Robert Winters, where John Turner and his 195 Club delegates would simply wait for his chance to dance, quit politics in 1975 and return to win it on second ballot in 1984 against Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien at the Ottawa Convention Centre. Chrétien pulled the same, by resigning in 1986 and then running to win in 1990 at the Calgary Saddledome, allowing Paul Martin Junior to repeat the cycle, stay as finance minister until leaving cabinet in 2002 and then being coronated coronated in 2003 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.

The point here is that at the Palais Des Congrès De Montréal tomorrow, since the federal Liberals can not have a second coming of Trudeaumania, if the leadership race continues to be so lacking in hopeful inspiration, then there is nothing new to make this hopeless party and its leadership anymore exciting to vote for. Rather expect the same old fear and smear, shock and awe or divide and conquer politics we have witnessed since 2004 and the blame and shame gaming of the system since the start of time, all of this follows the brand new in so far as the arts and sciences of military tactical operations, creating a futuristic, almost negatively dystopian, melding of both into a hybrid of militics. If the Liberals want to guard away from that, they must move more towards a positive utopiuan chose change slogan mantra, with the need to take this race to a long term fifth and final ballot marathon fight, in growing support and inclusively bringing others within, to make sure another short term coronation sprint to a distant finish does not happen again.