Susan Delacourt, who took a soft look at Paul Martin's machinations to capture the Liberal Party's leadership in Juggernaut, did this analysis piece on "Mr. Dithers" management style.

An excerpt:

Over the course of this weekend's convention in Ottawa and during the past couple of months in delegate-selection meetings at the grassroots, Liberal party members have been casting ballots to register their contentment, or lack of it, with Martin at the helm.

It's not a vote that requires deep analysis of his leadership or decision-making skills — just a simple yes or no on whether he should face a leadership review vote. The Prime Minister is expected to win handily. The results will be announced tomorrow and then Martin, as usual, will have the last word when he does his convention wrap-up news conference.

But what if the vote did require a deeper analysis? What if this was a time for the Liberals, if not all Canadians, to truly sit back and take stock of what kind of leader Paul Martin has turned out to be?

That kind of scrutiny would have to go beyond the now-clichéd description of Martin as a "ditherer." The prestigious Economist magazine made that tag famous just last month, but this is actually a criticism that has dogged Martin almost since the beginning of his political career in the late 1980s.

A better and more current critique comes from Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, who says that Martin, even in the top political job in Canada, continues to act as a leader-in-waiting. Though the line gets big laughs from Tory crowds, it also rings uncomfortably true even among Liberal-friendlier circles.

The question is: What's Martin waiting for? Is it simply a chance to have the last word?