Bring on the Farce

While you were wrestling with the idea that had Belinda not dropped out of the Liberal leadership race, Tie Domi could have ended up serving cucumber sandwiches at 24 Sussex drive as the first-spouse, the campaign fell even further into the realm of farce.

As Jumpin' Joe Volpe was about to enter a news conference to defend his ethics-challenged campaign, he was chased down the street by two "ghosts," wearing white sheets and signs reading, "Volpe Has Spirits." This spectacle at least got Joe some national TV. And it's good to see that David Herle has found a work again.

Both Volpe and Igantieff have been accused of bringing out the dead - and signing them up for Liberal Party cards. Now I know what I'm doing for Halloween.

And then there's Eddie Goldenberg. He's packin'. Yeah, you know what we mean. He's packin' a mean grudge against the Martinites and let's er rip with his new tell-all. We say: buy the book.

Finally, there is Hedy Fry, a candidate who was not chosen as first, second or third choice for leader by any of the 1,000 respondents to an EKOS Research poll. "She literally got zero. I have never seen that in over 20 years of polling," said EKOS's Frank Graves. But Rae welcomed her to the lefty fold.