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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
Don't know who the WR leadership candidates might be, but these are my thoughts:
1) rob Anderson is smarter than his pitbull rep. He is a person of conviction and I think Rob means what he says
2) shayne Saskiw was Gold Medalist at u of a commerce, silver medalist u of a law. Tax lawyer before being an MLA. Don't know if he has leadership aspirations.
3) Heather Forsythe is not running again to my knowledge
4) Bruce Rowe is actually a solid guy from the times I've met him.
I think some of their staff and leaders need to be looked at. The endorsement of Anders by Hinmen was a real head shaker, amongst others
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They're all nobody's, thats the problem. You can be a big name in the WRP camp and you will only attract votes from those that are already card carrying WRP members. You need someone people have heard of outside of the party to have any shot at winning. You need your Peter Lougheed that can take the party from nothing.
The overarching problem, is the province went from Social Credit to PC and has never looked back; PCs came to be because the SC was too rural and conservative, yet somehow, WRP thinks the next step in the evolution of our politics is to become more conservative. Doubt it. Lefties have a better shot at winning if they can ever get their act together and merge. They'd take most of Edmonton pretty easily and a good chunk of Calgary, and you'd see PCs become the "conservative" option and WRP eventually fall off the map.