This province of mine would vote in a dead cat if it’s blue. (Much to my chagrin.) The best scenario for a Rachel win is if Kenney survives the review. Albertans have a personal hate on for the guy. Though Brian Jean may be further right on the rector scale, today in his Global interview he said all the things Albertans want to hear. Even mentioning Rachel in a positive light. Is he lying? Conservatives won’t care. They’ll vote him in anyway. Is he a Harper/Manning puppet? If so, we are hooped and the push to turn this province into a money making machine for the big guys will continue.
What you don’t appear to understand that the only way Rachel Notley will get elected in Alberta is if 1. There are two conservative parties to vote for - a stupidly right party and a low taxes privatizing libertarian right wing party. Or 2. If Rachel Notley changed her name to anything else and ran as a conservative. Roughly two thirds of Albertans vote conservative as if it were a football team that their uncle Glen plays on. It’s about loyalty, and about being on the winning team and the rest of the province has tried to cope by having one who is not a complete nut case as the leader of a party that never loses. So progressives buy their memberships and try to vote for the least crazy. Last election for the leader of the UCP, there were not any real differences between the platforms. They all read like the same football coach had picked the game plan.
This province of mine would vote in a dead cat if it’s blue. (Much to my chagrin.) The best scenario for a Rachel win is if Kenney survives the review. Albertans have a personal hate on for the guy. Though Brian Jean may be further right on the rector scale, today in his Global interview he said all the things Albertans want to hear. Even mentioning Rachel in a positive light. Is he lying? Conservatives won’t care. They’ll vote him in anyway. Is he a Harper/Manning puppet? If so, we are hooped and the push to turn this province into a money making machine for the big guys will continue.
What you don’t appear to understand that the only way Rachel Notley will get elected in Alberta is if 1. There are two conservative parties to vote for - a stupidly right party and a low taxes privatizing libertarian right wing party. Or 2. If Rachel Notley changed her name to anything else and ran as a conservative. Roughly two thirds of Albertans vote conservative as if it were a football team that their uncle Glen plays on. It’s about loyalty, and about being on the winning team and the rest of the province has tried to cope by having one who is not a complete nut case as the leader of a party that never loses. So progressives buy their memberships and try to vote for the least crazy. Last election for the leader of the UCP, there were not any real differences between the platforms. They all read like the same football coach had picked the game plan.