Patrick Brown is the man-child who still dreams of governing the men, women and children of Ontario.He is a poster boy for politicians who never grow up — or give up — because they don’t know how to take No for an answer.As an MP in Ottawa, he allegedly lusted after — and lunged for — a female staffer. The teetotaler and the intoxicated teen.All the while, he found time to date an intern who came on his payroll at 21, followed him to Queen’s Park, tagged along for official trips abroad, and is still standing by her man-child today.A Progressive Conservative paragon of private-sector thrift, he now confesses to pleading for help from mom and dad on the down payment for his oversized house — just like other hard-pressed Ontario families, except that he’s a never-married 39-year-old (no kids, no obligations) who has earned well over six figures as a career politician since leaving university. A man-child with a mom-and-pop mortgage ($1.7 million) and a subsidized downtown luxury condo who claims to feel your pocketbook pain.A jock-child who poses for photos with every celebrity athlete he can conjure up, Brown attends fantasy hockey camps while living out his own real-life fantasy as a political poseur. All supposedly for charity, but in reality for his own cause.Abandoned by his mutinying staff, forced to resign by a caucus revolt, later expelled from caucus, ultimately deemed unfit to run as a Tory MPP in his local riding, Brown now wants it all back. He is running again to be Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, notwithstanding his disloyalty to the PCs.And why not? It’s his Tory party, and he can cry if he wants to ... let it die if he wants to.After all, he built it up — from 10,000 members to 200,000 — so why not tear it down? They are mostly his members, wooed and won over (in some cases, and by some accounts, allegedly bought and paid for).Don’t count him out. But if there is ...
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