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Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby
Yeah, but how do you win back the socially conservative then?  |
Now that you say that, you're absolutely right--that must be her strategy.
But this is in my view based on a fundamental misunderstanding of Alberta conservatism, which is in my view not generally social conservatism. At least, not in Calgary--where I think you have a lot of socially liberal entrepreneurial types who think along the lines that Cowboy89 set out.
For that reason, it's a mistake (IMO) for the PCs to try to compete with the WRA for social conservatives. Social conservatives are going to vote Wild Rose anyway--they've been waiting for a farther-right option for 35 years, and if there were an even farther right option, they'd vote for them too. Instead, the PCs need to do what they've done for the last three decades, which is to keep their fingers on the Alberta "middle," which has always been fiscal conservatism and social liberalism.