Edo,
Yeh, I can see where you are coming from, and it is to people like you that
FG will depend on, no impulsive reaction, no scapegoating the leader, no, just let the dust settle, and this will pass and be no more, and George will go his will sorrowfully.
You are right, so far Enda has handled it well, kept a dignified silence and allowed Geroge to do that which he always wanted, hog the limelight, and boy has that light shown up a few warts I didn't see, and how disappointed I am. I mean Browne literally stripped him bare tonight for all to see, no radicalness, no originality, just platitudes, cringing pseudo heroism, cliches and froth. So he was used as an asset in a way he did not think he as an asset should be used, what absolute trite sh-te! Of course
FG would use him, after all Dublin was where they had to make great inroads, and Kenny can still do it, by at least apologising to the people of Dublin South for one of his party letting them down, and by telling them that with him it is not froth, not impatience, not the nearest way, but the long hard and certain haul up the mountain, where there will eventually be a wonderful view, one much more appreciated, productive and beautiful because of that very effort itself.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Enda Kenny for an hour two years ago in relation to bio ethics issues, I really really like the guy, not one to throw the dirt, a real gentleman with convictions in relation to some issues that are more important even than this recession; a man who overcame an innate lethargy that is the territory of a political dynasty, and dragged himself out of that to rebuild a decimated party. He is a good and decent man who whatever his shortcomings, (who hasn't!) should not be shafted now. Kenny did not flinch when others gave up. He took the poisoned chalice others declined. Sometimes, I am ashamed to say I too get swayed by the froth, that he is not up to it on those areas that really are only superfluous and without substance, that tell us nothing about the mettle of the man, ironically this does, and he is coming out of it well, thus far.
Indeed now may well be his moment, to turn adversity and disappointment to his advantage, to show his steel and to tell the egoes in the party, be they the D4 Blonde or the maverick Deasy, that the time of the superstars or celebriity is over, that it is the long hard graft, the graft he put in himself when no one else would and that this is not the time to measure the mettle or substance of someone on how they perform on a lite weight chat show, but on fortitude, perseverence, and a sense of public service.
It is not about charisma, it is not about formidable articulation or communication skills, it is not even about taleny or vision or executive ability, the things we were told Haughey, Ahern, and Cowan had. I think rather it is time now for a life and personality more ordinary to lead us, one who can put a team of talents together, a team probably with a bigger ego than his own, because from where I am standing only Kenny can lead such a team and that team is as well rid of George Lee as it is of John Deasy, and maybe Lucinda Creighton too.
Less petulance and more cohesiveness now
FG, your leader needs you and so does your country. The measure of the man and the party at this time is how both react to this, Kenny so far looks dignified and Taoiseach material, will the front bench and T.Ds also pass mustard? Will they repeat the mistakes of the past, pissing on Dukes, and then Bruton, only to show us that really there is no depth there at all, just panic among headless chickens?
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