Modeling Journey

In today's Globe & Mail, Jeffrey Simpson makes a fundamental error by framing the choices facing Liberals as being one in three:

Liberals have three options. They can fight among themselves, as they have been doing. They can dump their leader, Michael Ignatieff, by means not yet identified, on the necessarily unproven assumption that anyone would be better. Or they can shut up and work together, making the best of what they have.

What Liberals cannot do, and would be crazy to contemplate, is a merger with the New Democratic Party.