Just trying to help

The always-unassailable logic of FoDs — Friends of Dan. Thank you to Craig Westcott (the traitor) for the public service you have done in posting up the transcript of Dean MacDonald's recent comments at the Junior Anti-Sex League meeting or some such:

CW: How would you rate the premier as premier?

DM: I think the voters have certainly done a good job of evaluating that.

CW: So, do you agree with the voters’ assessment?

DM: Yeah.

CW: So you’re a Liberal, but you support the premier?

DM: Yeah, I think all Newfoundlanders support the premier, you know in terms of whoever is the premier always has my support. You know, I’m trying to help in any way I can as a citizen.

"All Newfoundlanders support the Premier."

By necessary implication, that means if you don't support the Premier, you're not a Newfoundlander. (Which, for some folks who don't tend to think of themselves as Newfoundlanders in the first place, might not be such a bad line of reasoning after all.)

But still: is this what passes for political thought and leadership, just five and a half years into the Dannystan era? Is this guy really the best that the provincial opposition party, and its hangers-on, can come up with?

Has the corrosive political force named Danny Williams really penetrated that deeply, so that even pretenders to the opposition party's crown have to pledge fealty to Him — and pledge it on behalf of everyone else in the province?

Something is very, very wrong with this picture.