As fervently as I oppose the concept of
schadenfreude these days, I can't help but be slightly amused to see the nastiness of the Liberals
duking it out publicly in Quebec:
“He [Dion] has no instinct,” former Liberal minister and political commentator Liza Frulla said in an interview.
“At a certain point, people feel it if there is something wrong, even if they don't know exactly what it is. But he, poor Stéphane, doesn't feel it.”
Ms. Frulla also said publicly what many Liberals are saying privately about Mr. Dion's lieutenant in Quebec, Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette.
“She is abrasive and she is narcissistic,” Ms. Frulla said.
The former minister of Canadian Heritage argued that Ms. Hervieux-Payette is failing to connect with grassroots organizers.
“The more people know her, the more they run away. She has met a number of riding association presidents, and these people … are leaving,” Ms. Frulla said.
Abrasive and narcissistic?
This brings back memories of what life was like in the conservative parties in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Nary a day went by where some dust-up wasn't playing out in the national papers. I thought the Liberals were too disciplined a machine to descend into this kind of feuding, but apparently not. Says a lot about their current state.
Liza Frulla had been frequently talked about in Montreal political circles as a likely replacement for Paul Martin in Lasalle-Émard, but given the tone of these comments, that doesn't seem probable.
