Yeats, Dion, Iggy &...Liberals?

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. Observing fellow Liberals furiously contradict themselves on Iggy is dispiriting. When I read this, Spector's & Gardner's insightful comments made me think of another piece, I (Dion) am more Liberal than you and Dion's point: "Ignatieff didn't just support George W. Bush's adventures; on more than one occasion, "He was pushing Bush in the back."" Were I to be bothered to review Liberal blogs & commentary from the majority who neither supported Iggy for the 2006 leadership nor he & his supporters' subsequent machinations, I wonder whether I might find they consistently made many of the same points as the Cons are now? Poser la question, c'est y répondre, non?

Moral: this is what happens when Liberals renounce liberalism and have a "coup de chefferie tranquille", installing a leader whose core positions, in his field of supposed expertise, are contrary to established Liberal (& liberal) traditions.