Mr. Caplan has done such a hateful hatchet job on the Conservative leadership candidates before the race has even gotten serious with the first debates and the final entrees in the race that one might think he is simply an embittered NDP zealot lashing out because his party is a distant third at 16% in the polls, so far behind in popularity and finances that only one NDPer has even expressed mild interest in picking up the poisoned chalice from Mr. Mulcair.

But it would be unseemly to suggest this is the case with life long NDPer Mr. Caplan.  

So let me just say that there are already at least five Conservative candidates far more qualified for the leadership of a mainstream political party than PM Trudeau was in 2013.

I suppose it might be tempting for someone to do a hatchet job on the NDP leadership candidates - if there were any.