Dear Colleen:

Boo friggin' Hoo.

Good god lady - grow a brain sometime. Ralph's sat at the helm of this province far longer than was justified. He should have stepped down a few years ago when it was clear that the province was going to clear the debt books quite handily. Instead, he had to hang on until pushed hard to leave.

You can't tell me that you were shocked that people thought that an 18 month leadership race (declared or not) just might do more damage to the party than the short term damage of a speedy, but forced, departure. Surely Jean Chretien's "long goodbye" would have made the consequences pretty clear. (Or perhaps, you are just deluded enough to believe that the PCs are one monolith of opinion?)