I was going to put Liberal Leadership race in the title, but race isn’t  quite the right word; marathon, trek, migration, journey, saunter, meander, walk…

Paul Wells sums it up in his piece  day 8,322 of the Liberal leadership campaign

Time for a mea culpa. In the weeks after Paul Martin announced he’d vacate the Liberal leadership, I argued (mostly on my blog) that the party should take a long time to pick a leader and rethink its direction. Big mistake. A modern party can’t seriously rethink its direction until it has a leader, and the Liberals have become quite incoherent during the endless trek to their next convention. They could profitably have timed the whole process so it would be wrapping up by now.

 

But the good news is that the Liberal leadership campaign is closer to its end than its beginning. At the end of September, party members across the country will elect delegates to the convention that will be held two months later in Montreal. So members have only about six weeks to decide who they support for the next fight against Stephen Harper. And the delegates they select will have less time, after that, to decide how they will game out a long day on the convention floor.