Friday, June 01, 2007

Preston Manning should once more become the party leader and lead the political movement

Preston Manning should once more become the party leader and lead the political movement. This next time, however, perhaps he should try his revered hand that once led Reform to now lead Green. Elizabeth May has lost her internal moral compass on political democratic reform, thinking one can ask politicians, both senators and members, to cross the floor over without any election or byelection to confirm it as the citizen constituents' choice. That May thought that trading Dion free rides in a Central Nova for Saint-Laurent—Cartierville riding bet between the Grits and Greens, a deal that trades all citizen constituents' choices like horses, would have triggered a leadership review by rebels within the Alliance years ago, thus proving Green lacks the real activist reformers the other rival grassroots organization had back in the day, or at least don't have the openly bold tenacity Reformers had even they formed their Western Canadian based Democratic Representative Association or Independent Alliance Caucus led by Chuck Strahl and Deb Grey to unite their right. Today, a dark green horse could easily waltz right into the fray to lead a grassroots political organization towards action that changes the national agenda, bring those brand new ideas to life, so perhaps an old warhorse should think big about leading that party and movement before it loses its hype and slowly fades into a shadowy irrelevance like Manning himself.