someone put Dion out of his misery

The latest news in a long series of bad news for the Liberals is that there is nearly open revolt amongst many top Liberals in Quebec.  Apparently the ground game in Quebec is going quite poorly.  Candidates are not elected in all of the ridings, fundraising is going poorly, and the party is having troubles organizing volunteers that it will need to fight any effective campaign.  I say it is time for Dion to shut everyone in the party up for good by bringing down the Conservative government; there is even an issue to bring them down over, the proposed immigration changes that are tied to a spending bill.

Dion will continue to face criticism from his party, particularly from the Quebec wing, right up until he manages to fight an election and regain some of the Liberal seats lost there in 2006.  Waiting makes no sense for Dion at this point in time.  It seems that at the present time many Liberal MPs would like to wait to see how bad the economy gets before going to the polls.  Maybe the economy will get pretty bad and the Conservatives will take a big hit for that, but maybe the economy will stabilize, heck maybe it will be better than predicted and then the Conservatives look like great financial managers.  There is just too much uncertainty on the economic forecast to hope that it will trip up the Conservatives.

If Dion were to bring down the Conservatives now he could quell the rising opposition in his party.  Dion would either do well in the campaign, maybe even well enough to win a minority government of his own, or fail miserably, in which case the Liberals can get rid of him.  The way I see it now is that Dion continues to face troubles from within his own party, continues to run away from confidence motions, continues to flounder on Liberal policy, all the way until the fall of 2009 when he loses big time in an election.  The Liberals should go to the polls now, either let Dion prove he is a worthy leader capable of running a successful campaign, or let him go down to defeat and find a better replacement.