There is a word for it.

Canadians who despaired watching the dogfight that was our Leaders Debate now have a term to describe why the pitbull Jack Layton’s pugilism turned them off more than the obtuse self-involvement of Harper that night.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, that pneumatic Teuton we’ve come to know and love, Governor of  “Collyfornia,” declared on Sunday Night’s “60 Minutes” that “the left doesn’t like me . . . and the right doesn’t like me when I tax and spend,” concluding that he “can’t be psyched out” because he is in the service, not of the Republican Party, but of the public.

Arnie is postpartisan, a term we’d have used ourselves—if we’d known of it the night of our Canadian Leaders’ Debate—if merely to simply hurl it at the t.v. screen, along with the popcorn we were throwing at the unpleasant melee before us.  “Why can’t you all just behave like postpartisans,” we’d have shouted.
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