Reddit reviews Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics

Oh, absolutely no worries. You've put it together better than I could have.

I will stick up for Layton, partly because I may or may not have voted for an NDP MP in the last election (out of respect for said MP's actual efforts, disgust at the incredibly disrespectful parachute candidates, and some very very odd zoning laws) and partly because most of the party literature for that particular election does mention specific bills, stances, and campaigns he worked with rather than larger and larger glossier and glossier photos.

Someday (probably once I'm paralyzed with an internet connection) I will make a Red Book of your longer arguments...

EDIT And for that matter, the constant chatter of "a different way of doing politics" that has amounted to....an extremely shallow out-of-season campaign that looks like most other losing-party campaigns. It was telling that the LPC did try something similar with Ignatieff as well; especially sweeping a lot of his interventionist positions he had publicly taken under the rug in favour of a "Bad Harper; We Fix Things Soon" message.

EDIT 2 While I was looking for Ignatieff's most toxic book on Amazon (it was about prisons and the industrial revolution, and how bad we are for punishing people in the first place), I stumbled upon this particular piece of Butthurt.