Tory Staying as Provincial PC Leader — Damn!
| 2/24/2008 | Posted by Patti under Canadian News |
At the provincial Conservatives convention in London this week their leader, John Tory, received 66.9% support of the voting delegates. It is the same amount of support that Joe Clark received almost 20 years ago. Clark was decisive enough to decide that 2/3 wasn’t a clear vote of support and immediately triggered a leadership race that eventually saw him depart as leader of the federal Conservatives.
Not Tory, who couldn’t even manage to win his own seat in the last election, he announced first he’d have to think about it and then that he was staying. That says a lot about his style of leadership, he has displayed a dithering style so often that for him to be decisive and actually mean it would likely shock people.
I’m rather disappointed he’s staying. I was looking foward to his absence from my TV screen. I’m so sick of the sight of him mouthing off on everything going and saying nothing. Mainly because he always says the same thing … “xxx (insert issue) is just wrong and McGuinty is doing everything wrong because I just know I’m right even though I’m not about to actually make a statement that would seem like a solution”. He’s got the script to the point all he needs to do is insert the issue of the day.
I wonder if it ever occurred to him that the voters of Ontario need some substance if they would actually consider electing a talking head that couldn’t even win in the City of Toronto. Maybe McGuinty has bribed him to stay so he can look really good.
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