Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Who could be Liberal Leader?

There are some people who seem obvious candidates and I think will run:

  • Rich Coleman - a more right wing choice but suffers from being in this cabinet
  • George Abbott - a rural moderate voice but in the current cabinet
  • Kevin Falcon - it feels like has been defacto angling for the job for some years now.
  • Mike de Jong - once again in cabinet now, but is a moderate
  • Diane Watts - outside of the cabinet and a well liked mayor of Surrey


Time for some out of the box speculation of possible people - I have no idea if they are interested in running:

  • Christy Clark - She does not own the government problems of today, but does she have the desire?
  • Bill Bennett - The race would benefit from truly outspoken being in it
  • Barry Penner - He has a personal following that might push him to run, a moderate though once again part of the cabinet
  • Keith Martin - He would be a very interesting person to be in the race, a former Reform MP that is now a Liberal has is personally very popular
  • David Emerson - He may be too damaged from his party hop in 2006
  • Sukh Dhaliwhal - Another sitting Liberal MP.  I have the sense Sukh has bigger ambitions and I can only see Premier as the place for him to go to.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Diane Watts is wishful thinking. Why would she want this stinking pile of crap to sort out?

And you forgot Mr. leading in money and organization, Kevin Falcon. Unfortunately so tied to the current regime it hurts when he tries to walk.