because he can't get his own party to support him.

It's time to turn the Nassau party over to younger leadership. The party base is older, creaky and the arteries are getting harder for the heart to pump.

It's the politics of the Liberal party that they seem to get away with this kind of thing in Ontario and to some degree in Quebec. He'll likely form another government. Whether it's a minority or a majority, I don't know. But certainly he'll get votes out of Ontario.

Ever since the George McGovern disaster of 1972, the party has routinely chosen technocratic moderates for standard-bearers.

It really is up to Mr. Layton to decide how long he's prepared to support the Liberal Party and its waste and corruption.

He's doing a good job in terms of grass roots support for the party, but he understands, as we do, nobody's hanging on every word [from] the chair of the Democratic National Committee,