It's better for fade away than to burn out

"Some former politicians just don't know when to call it a day."

So says former PC candidate Roger Pike, in a completely un-orchestrated opinion piece, which is certainly not part of any greater campaign of character assassination, for the Grand Falls-Windsor Advertiser:

Now I hear the former education minister, Chris Decker, squawking on the radio and television that current Minister Joan Burke should be fired for interfering and rejecting a recommendation of a selection committee to find a new president for Memorial University. To quote Chris Decker, "This is the stupid action of an interfering minister that should be fired or removed immediately."

I now find it ironic that Decker can call for Minister Burke to be fired for doing something he did as minister just a few short years ago. Either Chris Decker has an extremely short memory or is simply playing typical petty politics with this latest issue. In any event, I feel he should butt out.

Ah yes.

Butt out.

The regime's standard response, in more or less as many words, to former politicians, and one which Roger Pike, former PC candidate, just happens, by coincidence, to agree with.

Roger Grimes? Butt out.

Brian Peckford? Shut up and go away.

John Crosbie? He doesn't get to call the shots.

Former politicians should butt out.

This means you, John Ottenheimer.

And Len Simms.

And Glenn Tobin.

Additions to the list are welcome; use the comments board.