Comment: I'm not sure which candidate would be best for Conservative leader.  

One positive for Raitt, though, is a memory of have of her on TV that night Elizabeth May had the on-mic drunken meltdown.  Old Elizabeth was making a fool of herself at the mic, and suddenly there was Lisa Raitt pulling her off-stage in a sisterly way.  It was a rare show of humanity from a member of a government that had pretty much convinced me it was hard-knuckled and nasty to the core.  
This said, I'd like to hear what Ms. Raitt's policies are, one problem with making this Globe piece focus on her 'backstory' is that I don't learn from the article what differentiates her from the others in the race. "I can beat the Liberals" is too vague...what are your proposed policies?