Martin Redux?

[Michael Bluth]

From Jane Taber's column in today's Globe. Sorry, no link subscriber only.

Martin redux

There is much gnashing of teeth by Liberals -- both elected MPs and non-elected strategist types -- about the fact that some key Paul Martin players -- Brian Guest, Tim Murphy and Mike Robinson -- are involved in election debate preparation (and other tasks, it seems) for new leader Stéphane Dion.

Whatever happened to party renewal? And aren't these the guys who lost the past two elections? These are all questions many Liberals are asking themselves these days.

While it makes sense that Mr. Robinson, a senior lobbyist in Ottawa, is involved because of his expertise in many of the past elections, there are some raised eyebrows about the involvement of the others. This is also the brain trust that in the past election debate had Mr. Martin offer up that wacky and desperate idea of removing the possibility of the federal government using the notwithstanding clause.

Wacky and desperate ... brilliantly stated!

It seems like a good thing for the Conservatives that Dion is using the old Martin campaign team.

So I guess the Liberals strategy for the next election will be *scary* *scary* *scary*.

Does anybody think these guys will come up with anything more imaginative?

[geoffrey]

Choosing Dion was enough for the non-diehard Liberals to understand that nothing at all has changed.

[Michael Bluth]

Choosing Dion was enough for the non-diehard Liberals to understand that nothing at all has changed.

Dion's campaign chairman was Mark Marissen. A close intimate of Paul Martin's and husband to former BC Cabinet Minister Christy Clark.

Seems like Dion bagged all of Martin's boys in BC. Link

So much for an end to the civil war.

It appears that at least some of the Martin holdovers have created a new board.