Manley Doesn’t Matter

The Globe and Mail is touting Manley as a strong candidate in the upcoming leadership convention. According to them, Manley could become a front runner and make the race “compelling”.

The fact is, Manley won’t win. He’ll pick up less than ten percent of the vote. He’s splitting the economic center to center-right vote with Ignatieff, who has more popularity than Manley could hope for.

He doesn’t have the right background to be a renewal, “308″, grassroots candidate either. He has all the negatives of an establishment candidate, but having been out of politics for a while he seems to have lost his core team.

He has all the personality of a smoked eel, too. He’s not Dion 2.0 (he can communicate fine, at least in English) but he’s too mechanical.

The fact is, he won’t win. He ain’t even a contenda.