Enda Kenny - People's choice for Taoiseach

[hiding behind a poster]

The people went to the polls last may their choice was clear.

No, their choice wasn't clear. It was extremely marginal. Three more seats for FG/Labour/Green and Kenny would now be Taoiseach. So don't ever kid yourself that Ahern got a ringing endorsement. Because he didn't.

[FutureTaoiseach]

Most certainly not. If anything Cowen fits that bill with 52% support, though it remains unclear if this is approval for his job as Finance Minister or as a potential Taoiseach. The fact that 46-44 people are opposed to Bertie resigning does not exactly fit in with the thesis that Enda is the people's choice for Taoiseach. Ultimately the only poll that matters was last May and the people were clear in their answer that Bertie not Enda was their choice.

[Apparatchik]

Could it be anyone other than Fine Gael who would highlight an inane comment from one of their 'rising stars'

Would any party other than FG regard a PR girl having a blond day, as a rising star?

[hiding behind a poster]

I know its late pfkf1 so ill put this thread down to over tiredness on your part.I mean really this is as cringe worthy as kenny when he refused to conceed the election and made his plea to the Dail chamber stating that if every party in the state got together bar FF and SF they could form a government

So, why should he have conceded the election at that point? To make Ahern's coalition negotiations easier?

[gaelach]

I know its late pfkf1 so ill put this thread down to over tiredness on your part.I mean really this is as cringe worthy as kenny when he refused to conceed the election and made his plea to the Dail chamber stating that if every party in the state got together bar FF and SF they could form a government

So, why should he have conceded the election at that point? To make Ahern's coalition negotiations easier?

To stop him looking like a desperate idiot?

[hiding behind a poster]

The people went to the polls last may their choice was clear.

No, their choice wasn't clear. It was extremely marginal. Three more seats for FG/Labour/Green and Kenny would now be Taoiseach. So don't ever kid yourself that Ahern got a ringing endorsement. Because he didn't.

I think it is correct to say he got an endorsement for the past 3 Elections and to me that is a ringing endorsement.

You can't group three elections together to make an endorsement "ringing".

[daithimac]

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The people went to the polls last may their choice was clear.

No, their choice wasn't clear. It was extremely marginal. Three more seats for FG/Labour/Green and Kenny would now be Taoiseach. So don't ever kid yourself that Ahern got a ringing endorsement. Because he didn't.

I think it is correct to say he got an endorsement for the past 3 Elections and to me that is a ringing endorsement.

You can't group three elections together to make an endorsement "ringing".[/quote:wi0evd7v]

unless there all held in on a day begining with T and your name ends in a Y and theres a full moon out while a democrat is in the whitehouse

[Apparatchik]

I know its late pfkf1 so ill put this thread down to over tiredness on your part.I mean really this is as cringe worthy as kenny when he refused to conceed the election and made his plea to the Dail chamber stating that if every party in the state got together bar FF and SF they could form a government

So, why should he have conceded the election at that point? To make Ahern's coalition negotiations easier?

To stop him looking like a desperate idiot?

"Ginger" Kenny? That'd be a cold day in hell.

[Apparatchik]

Could it be anyone other than Fine Gael who would highlight an inane comment from one of their 'rising stars'

Would any party other than FG regard a PR girl having a blond day, as a rising star?

A blond day can also be a fun day

FG put a lot of thought into their barnets, as Kenny's election posters showed. Lunching Lucinda plied the Black Arts for the Health & Safety Authority. She'd schmooze for Ireland.

[MarkyMark]

um according to the poll Gerry Adams and Gormley are well ahead