EyeBrock wrote:
Harper started out quite promising, as did Iggy.
What went wrong with the both of 'em?
Harper keeps letting his partisan nature get the better of him and being needlessly provocative, pandering to his base where he can't win seats and offending moderates where he needs to, etc. They're pretty good, though, at making incremental gains via concetrated riding-by-riding races so they may yet get to majority, even if it would be a razor-thin one.
Iggy inherited a party destroyed by Dion, then turned invisible for the fisrt two or three major breaks of his tenure, and then threatened an election just a year after the last, which was too early, and then had to do a lot of damage control. If he'd waited until now without having done so before, I think he might be faring better. Add to that an almost total policy vaccum and he's jusy not inspiring. He may be holding his cards close to his chest, waiting until an actual campaign to release a platform so the Conservatives can't skim off the good stuff an introduce it themselves, but that remains to be seen. They've got a lot of room to grow though.
If there is to be an election in ~May, both have a lot to prove, and at least one will have a lot of 'splainin to do afterwards.
CKA Uber 
