Oh, please. No one in the press considers Mulcair to have been a real NDPer until he ran for the NDP in Outremont in 2007.
You're the one that is trying to claim that Mulcair has a long history with the NDP which isn't really true. His only career as an *elected* politician prior to running for the NDP in 2007 in Outremont was as a provincial Liberal MNA. From 1994 to 2005. It's misleading to claim he was an NDPer before that because he briefly may have had an NDP membership a couple of decades earlier. He never had a major role within the party or an elected position until 2007.
And all you're doing by arguing the contrary is making Mulcair look like even more of a party switcher and back & forth opportunist who changes sides with the winds.
Actually if you check post 134 under the thread "Not Your NDP Candidate" you will find that I speculated that he let his membership lapse. I never claimed he had a long history but that as a youth he was interested in the NDP. Which incidentally happens to be the same political trajectory I have followed. NDP-lLPC-NDP.
The other interesting thing about this is that July 26 was when I first pointed out that you were spewing false information about Mulcair and yet after you continued to simply repeat this false information.
Why is that?