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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 09:50 AM
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7. And if she beats Valeri, what then?
She'll be shunted to the nethermost reaches of the Liberal backbench, from whence, if she continues sniping at Martin, she'll be booted out of caucus. That seems like a fairly hollow prize.

And if she loses the nomination but wins the election as an independent a la John Nunziata, she'll be as effective as, well, John Nunziata.

I think I'm disappointed she won't run for the NDP, but she did bring considerable baggage. (And I was haunted by the prospect of, down the road, the inevitable Sheila Copps leadership campaign.) And if I had been that impressed by her and her positions over the years, I suppose I'd have been a Liberal rather a New Democrat.

A bigger prize than Sheila is the Copps-ish wing of the Liberal Party, which isn't confined to the east end of Hamilton.
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