Finally, a bit of sense.

Here's a copy of a Tweet from Fine Gael TD, Nora Owen. I've never met Nora, but she does seem to have a nice practicality about her, like a long standing member of the ICA.

“Will no one tell Enda (a good and decent man) to go quietly and gracefully? A new energetic team needed. (keep Ml Noonan)”

At least she seems to have some amount of cop on, thank God. Poor Inda, he really seems determined to be Taoiseach, like a petulant five-year-old who is throwing tantrums until he has his turn. It kind of has echoings of Gordon Brown's insistance that he must become Prime Minster, simply because he had waited and waited and now it was his turn. And we all know how that worked out...

It's kind of pathetic really, poor Inda doesn't seem to get that his chance came and went. Imagine that it was an American teen movie. The Irish electorate (Ireland) are the hot girl that everyone wants to get into bed with; Inda was the slightly odd character who just wasn't cool enough for her, and when he asked her out on a date, Ireland said "no".

Not that Inda isn't a great guy, and sure Ireland would have been very lucky to have him, had she have realized it at the time, but sure she was getting loads of attention from the class jock, Fianna Fáil. Now Fianna Fáil was an exploitative dickhead, and Ireland knew that, but sure she got into bed with him anyway. Now, Ireland has discovered that she's in major trouble due to her involvement with Fianna Fáil, but it's too late; they were the choices that she made.

Now Inda has come to prominence as leader of the Sci-Fi Soc or some similar obscure society within campus, which gives him an inflated sense of his own importance, yet most outsiders continue to view him with utter disdain. And he's still desperately trying to get in with Ireland, despite plenty of hints that she simply isn't interested. Meanwhile Inda continues unabated, simultaneously being both mocked and pitied by all who witness the spectacle. Sound familiar?

So maybe Nora Owen should invite Inda around for a nice cup of tea, and gently break the news that he's not going to be the next Taoiseach. He'll probably be devastated, as most five-year-olds are when there are told that they are not going to the zoo, but he'll eventually realize that it was never to be. He won't get a trip to the Áras; but eventually, he'll probably see that it's for the best.