The Irrelevant Power Brokers?

This blog is written mostly tongue in cheek. there may be something informative, however. Please provide your feedback.
If you suffer from self-irrelevancy, please seek professional advice.

Hello. My apologies for not writing Thursday. Of course, if this blog is irrelevant, it doesn't matter.
Congrats to Stephane Dion for winning the federal Liberal leadership race. It was a very interesting day. I couldn't keep my eyes off it, even though I consider myself a non-political person. While I could do without the endless chatter (at least let people talk for max 1 minute, and then let someone else say something), there was enough action to keep things going.
What may prove historic about Dion's win was that although he was the only one of the top 4 candidates (the others being Michael Ignatieff, Bob Rae and Gerard Kennedy) with 10 years of federal political experience, Dion was not the pick of the Liberal powerbrokers, according to the "experts". Rae and Ignatieff were seen as their picks.
Should the powerbrokers have picked one candidate between Rae and Ignatieff? Probably. There may have been a different leader if they had.
Does this victory mean the Liberal powerbrokers are now irrelevant? I hope so. After all, it was their "arrogance", for lack of a better word, that created this situation. The Martin-Chretien rivalry turned into the sponsorship scandal, then into a Liberal minority government, then into a loss of power.
Given this result, would the powerbrokers consider themselves irrelevant? Probably not. However, if Dion is the man he's portrayed to be (high integrity, no deals with Quebec, no deals with anyone else), they may be on their last legs. And that internal change would be the revolutionary change the Liberals would need to regain power.

Regards,
Irrelevant