Sunday, November 23, 2008

Roads to renewal

NDP Left has a thorough review on the Ontario NDP leadership race, featuring a discussion of the most recent candidates' debate along with how the current leadership efforts fit into the wider party-building process.

Meanwhile, Saskatchewan's NDP blogosphere continues to wait for somebody - anybody? - to actually make a race out of our current leadership contest. Which means that the NDP's appearances in the news lately have been purely in response to Sask Party moves in government, while the possibility of any competing policy vision or public discussion of the NDP's renewal process gets ignored.

It's hard to see how even the most fanatical Lingenfelter devotee could honestly consider the latter to be the better of the two possibilities in building a party. But for now, what might well be reasonable individual choices among the possible contenders within Saskatchewan's NDP seem to be leaving the party as a whole with little prospect of drawing anything positive from the process of choosing a new leader.

No comments:

Post a Comment