No, not at all.
He needed to run in 10-15 targeted ridings, make sure the candidates were excellent and build on that.
More importantly, he needed to play nice with the CPC and go after the left, rather than attacking them and ignoring everyone else. He had one question in a debate to make his mark, and he used it to ask Scheer if he considered himself to be a "real conservative."
5-10 seats where he propped up the government wouldn't have been a bad goal. He'd be exceptionally relevant in today's parliament if he'd done that.
Instead he went for the short-term, win-it-all-or-go-bust play and it fucked him.
He needs to change tacks and quickly. His attacks on the CPC are far more motivated and more vehement than his attacks on the LPC and he almost never attacks the NDP (the party that used cheap accusations of racism against him and which certainly deserves some bitterness.)
He could have been the godfather of a new political party and written himself into history, but he went for it all. It's sad.
No, not at all.
He needed to run in 10-15 targeted ridings, make sure the candidates were excellent and build on that.
More importantly, he needed to play nice with the CPC and go after the left, rather than attacking them and ignoring everyone else. He had one question in a debate to make his mark, and he used it to ask Scheer if he considered himself to be a "real conservative."
5-10 seats where he propped up the government wouldn't have been a bad goal. He'd be exceptionally relevant in today's parliament if he'd done that.
Instead he went for the short-term, win-it-all-or-go-bust play and it fucked him.
He needs to change tacks and quickly. His attacks on the CPC are far more motivated and more vehement than his attacks on the LPC and he almost never attacks the NDP (the party that used cheap accusations of racism against him and which certainly deserves some bitterness.)
He could have been the godfather of a new political party and written himself into history, but he went for it all. It's sad.