On Sunday I read through Angelo Persichilli’s political column in the Toronto Star. I usually give his column a scan but rarely put a lot of stock into it. More of a gut response to his writing than any true sense that he plays pretty loose with the truth in his perspective.

In his latest column he claims that a full blown revolt is happening in the Liberal party, led by Bob Rae, and apparently deep into planning through a group of MPs who sat down to have nightcaps together after a party. The brass of them, they decided to plot this coup in a very public venue. Persichilli doesn’t identify who his source is, one would wonder if it was speculation or if he truly had a mic on the table.

He claimed that it would be pretty difficult for Ignatieff to survive as leader until the end of this year, a scant 3 weeks away. The reality is, short of executing the guy, it would be pretty much impossible to remove him either before the end of the year or conceivably the end of next year. That would require a convention and leadership review.

Since then, led quickly by Bob Rae, the participants in those collegial drinks has shot down the assertions made in the column. So, is 100% of the party behind Ignatieff? Very unlikely, especially considering the last noticed polls. That begs the question, since I keep an eye on the media a lot why is it that polls are not quite as frequent lately as they were for a while this past fall? Are the Liberals moving up some and it doesn’t make good Conservative headlines?

I digress.

I lead a non-profit organization. My leadership was contested last year and likely will be this year. Even if it wasn’t contested, I know for a fact there is a faction who would love nothing more than to see the end of me as leader. That’s just the nature of people.

I suspect that the bulk of Liberals are not unlike me, sick of seeing the ones in the power circle playing games instead of getting on with working on securing the confidence of the majority of Canadians. I suspect the fanciful story of a coup in the offing is more a construct of Conservative dreamers.

Is that the only way the Cons can stay in office is to try to present the Liberals as in disarray? Maybe they need to be taking a hard look at Harper and why he can’t get into a clear majority territory after four years in office. Maybe that has a lot to do with the fact the majority of Canadians know enough not to trust the creep.

UPDATE: interesting to note that an EKOS/REUTERS poll on Nov 26th showed the Cons with a .3% increase in support while the Liberals had a .5% increase in support. Not earth shattering but much better than a further drop.

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