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Originally Posted by darklord700
I think WR lost because they believed in the poll too much. Too much to change their course even in the face of those extremist candidates. Had WR simply fired those two or three problem candidates, they probably would have had won more votes.
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100% agree. It wasn't about what the party policy was, it was about the right wing boogeyman that the media and the PC party successfully played.
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I would argue that you have things a little backwards. I don't see how Wildrose embraced those idiots, as much as they didn't act strongly enough to them. Instead of a they don't speak for us and a solid boot, they fumbled through a apology that came out lame and half a##ed. But I didn't see where Wild Rose stood up and said "Yeah burn all the gays they're going to hell anyways"
I gave the PC"s credit because that was the only opening that they needed to boost up a utterly terrible candidate like Redford and shift the attention from her terrible performance in the debate and the fact that she was blathering on about nothing in her campaign and allowing them to ramp up the rhetoric.
Wild Rose lost more due to political inexperience then anything else.
I would think that they are going to heavily scrutinize any of their candidates, make sure that they stay on message in the next election and really twist the heat on Redford who doesn't seem to be that swift in a lot of ways.
I doubt that Danielle Smith who isn't great is going to be caught short in the next election.
the scary thought for the PC's is that Alberta seems to be a dynasty province and when you lose power you don't get it back.
They're caught between a rock and a hard place, Redford is terrible and unsympathetic and comes across as incredibly arrogant and seems to be a bit corrupt. But the PC's can't keep replacing leaders because an unstable leadership structure will eventually kick them in the a$$, and they don't have anyone that's separated themselves from Redford in line to take on the leadership.
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If you don't speak against those issues when you are confronted with them, then you are tacitly implying that you agree with them, even if you don't. Call it embracing or whatever you want, the pot still looked black to a lot of people.
That's why they lost.