Jason Kenney: Interim Leader

Policy Wonks Dept: Which is another way of saying the Liberal Party is probably going to die, according to Globe And Mail. Mr. Rae is touring the country and consulting what political types like to call the grassroots, though Alykhan Velshi, a former aide to Conservative Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, astutely calls them the grasstops. The grasstops are the riding executives, policy wonks, activists and other need-to-get-a-life types who make up the infrastructure of a political party. They’re not the grassroots. You’re the grassroots, and you wouldn’t be caught dead at a Liberal or Conservative or NDP barbecue and how bad are things? Even though Mr. Rae, as interim leader, is supposed to be disqualified from running for the leadership, many Liberals believe the field of candidates willing to put themselves forward for certain defeat in the 2015 election will be so weak that the party will ask him to stay on. But you shouldn’t want it to die. People are eventually going to tire of voting Conservative, if not in 2015 then surely in 2019, and the NDP appears to be relentlessly determined not to grow up. Everyone who isn’t a diehard on the left or right has a stake in the Liberal Party’s renewal. And it’s why the party needs to go to a primary system for choosing the next leader. As reported in the news.
@t globe and mail, immigration minister