Stephan Dion - the 98 lb weakling

So Stephan Dion finally resigned as Liberal leader today. Good riddance. This was a guy that I had some respect for in the past. He took it on the chin to take on the separatists in Quebec largely crafting and defending the Clarity act and letting the separatists know they couldn't just walk off with Quebec on their terms.

Since becoming leader of the Liberal party his deficiencies have become glaringly obvious. He can't communicate (in either of the official languages). He's tone deaf to things people really care about (hint - nobody is lining up to pay a new tax they don't understand. They're still smarting from the last new tax they didn't understand, the GST). Even those that understood the Green Shaft, did not believe it would be revenue neutral. Governments are constitutionally incapable of bringing in a genuinely neutral tax.

So, he couldn't communicate, proposed selling the family farm to back the Green Shaft, and shut out any advice that did not agree with his. And today when he resigned he knew exactly who to blame for this. The Conservative party - they created a bad image of him in their advertising.

Wow! Did it come as a surprise to Mr. Dion that the Conservatives might try and make him look bad? Why did he let them create this impression. The Conservatives could only craft his image because he couldn't craft one for himself. Dion came off looking like the 98 pound weakling on the beach. Yep, Mr. Dion that nasty Mr. Harper beat you up, and later tonight he'll be fucking your girlfriend. That's your fault not his.

Someone should buy Dion a copy of The Prince. If he'd read that the professor might have a better idea about how to corral his unruly caucus, deliver an efficient bitch slap to the PM, and have the masses shower love and praise upon him.

Instead of blaming others for creating a false image of him he should look in the mirror, embrace the weakling within and slink back to the academy where he so clearly belongs.