Frank McKenna's decision to sit out the Liberal leadership came as surprising news to some. I wasn't that shocked. When he stepped down as Ambassador I figured he would take his time before deciding what to do next. He took a week, and decided he didn't want to spend the next decade of his life digging his party out of a $30-million debt and speaking in church basements in Brandon, Manitoba.
Would you? Can we please cut the man some slack?
McKenna's reasoning process was probably similar to the one undertook by Mike Harris when the latter was contemplating the Tory leadership in 2004. Why would any successful ex-Premier, capable of making oodles in the private sector, want to go back to public life for this? And with no guarantee of ever winning the top job? It's pretty clear why McKenna is sitting this one out.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 12:02 AM
