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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Maybe this is too Machiavellian, but what if Prentice's team is orchestrating all of this in-fighting to give the party an excuse to dump all the scandal-plagued MLAs from the old regime? Everyone knows the Wildrose Party is going to attack him as being nothing more than lipstick on a pig, so maybe he's trying to get ahead of it so he can truthfully claim that under his leadership it's no longer the same PC Party?
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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Probably not far off. Shed the liabilities and frame it as a clean break and new beginning.
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As Jacks notes, framing the PC's under Prentice as a "new beginning" is only going to encourage the opposition to endlessly make comparisons to when Redford made the same claim. It's going to ring hollow and could actually be counterproductive.
Orchestrating the scandals is an interesting concept, but I am not certain that would be all that wise. For one, it prolongs the controversy which only shortens the time the PCs have to recover. Second, is Lukaszuk the kind of guy you expect to go quietly? Dangerous game to force out someone who could drop bombs on you at the worst times. Third, it would be a tacit admission that the PC party is rotten to its core, which only favours Wildrose and the Liberals in the long run.
Plus, if such a plan were itself to ever be leaked, it would be the end of the party.