Did this guy nail it, or what!

Barry Cooper, a professor of political science at the University of Calgary, squashes like little bugs both Iggy and the Liberals for their self-righteous arrogance.

"A couple of days after Ivison's piece appeared, Nigel Hannaford provided additional evidence of Ignatieff's state of mind to readers of this paper. Hannaford analyzed Ignatieff's remarkable comment to the Globe and Mail where he dismissed the prime minister as "a politician formed and shaped in the radical conservative ideological world of Calgary and Calgary think tanks."

Whatever or whomever Ignatieff had in mind (and he was not at all specific), these were certainly bold words as well. So the interesting question is: notwithstanding their timid actions, why do Liberal leaders make such audacious statements?

The main reason, it seems to me, is that Liberals and especially Liberal intellectuals such as Dion and Ignatieff find it difficult to believe that normal people are not liberals and Liberals as they are. That such an attitude is not confined to Canada is confirmed by the response of their American counterparts to Sarah Palin, both during the 2008 election and after her recent announcement of her resignation as governor of Alaska."

It has become a never ending theme of Liberals in this country that anyone who isn't a Liberal barely has the right to call themselves "Canadian"...or for that matter, even half a human being. I'm personally fed up with this Liberal Leftist mentality that implies, and often hardly subtly, they somehow are God's gift to the human race, and the rest of us would all still be living in caves were it not for their self-esteemed enlightened influence.

From a westerner's perspective, it's all that much more insulting because, for the best part of over a century in this confederation, we've been footing the bills for the "Natural Governing Party's" largess in the east, and a kabillions worth of generally hair-brained spending programs to keep their core of support well greased. And all the while it goes on, being dissed for daring to think we deserve some sort of reasonable balance of political representation in Ottawa. Thus, after 142 years of so-called "democracy", the nation remains strapped with a Senate that by any rational standard in the 21st century is a pathetic joke...and with no end to it even in sight.

Yes, people get rightfully sick and tired of that sort of attitude...albeit it's taken an unbelievably long time for it to sink into enough heads in this country to finally start hurting the LPC.

What Cooper might also have pointed out is that the reality remains that both Dion and Iggy reflect an attitude that still predominates within the collective mindset of Liberals. Were this not a truth, neither ever would have achieved the status of leader of the LPC.