Fri 2 Oct 2009
As if to underscore his political weakness, Iffy is now threatening Denis Coderre.
Ignatieff may be trying to goad and humiliate Denis Coderre into vaulting to the Bloc. If Coderre were dumb enough to do that–and he is not, but he certainly has the hubrys for it–Ignatieff could then show how Coderre was a separatist Trojan horse. Iffy could then discredit him completely in the eyes of all the Liberals who are now sharpening their knives and pining for a new messiah.
If Coderre went fleur-de-lys bleu, Iffy could keep his job longer.
Because such threat is a weakness, Coderre scores a point. Because Coderre seems to be submitting on Facebook, Cauchon scores one too.
The contest continues: It’s Cauchon 2, Coderre 4.
Coderre has LPC leadership dreams . . he won’t jump to the Bloc.
He will however diss Iggy. He’ll not show up for events, votes, fundraisers etc.
He’ll make wishy-washy statements of Iggy loyalty that everyone knows are not true.
Add it all up and he’ll slow drip acid into Iggy’s very open and infected leadership wound.
Harvard must be looking good to Iggy about now.
Codere has 68 candidates selected for the next election. How many of them support Codere, and will resign after the writ is dropped to catch iffy in his trap.
How hard are they campaigning, or getting out to events, or door knocking to get their name known. Are they raising money.
MaryT
Those are excellent questions. I’ll unleash my spies in Montreal. I will be be traveling there in a couple of weeks, if all else fails.