Re: Wynne's unpopularity. I'm sure the fact that she's a woman and a lesbian play into it, but I strongly suspect we'd be seeing the same level of unhinged hate even if the lib leader were a straight male, and even if the party had been running things a lot more smoothly these past few years. There's never been any shortage of far right nuts in Toronto (never mind the rest of the province), and for lack of a better word, there's something kind of hapless about Wynne. I suppose that quality could rub people the wrong way. She seems to me a pretty bland, inoffensive figure, and I would have thought the very banality of her personality would have insulated her from the more over-the-top invective we've been seeing. I should have known better.
Yes, the libs - to use one of the Ford Brothers' favorite lines - have been anything but perfect during their current term ("Maybe you're perfect, but I'm not!"), but much of the crap being spouted from certain quarters goes way beyond legitimate complaints about job performance. One mouth frother here was shrieking that she was "a demon" a couple of weeks ago. A demon, for Christ's sakes. There's a clue that a lot of what we're seeing has zip to do with genuine concerns that relate to life as we know it on Planet Earth.
On the other side of the aisle, I'm not surprised the cons are choosing to keep Dofo on ice right now. The man is about as cuddly as a rattlesnake, and is as much of a liar, a blusterer and a bullshit artist as ever, as what little exposure he's granted to the media so far has aptly displayed. But Ford isn't the kind who appreciates being told what to do; I wonder how he's taking to his current orders to stay out of sight and keep his fat mouth shut.