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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
The Wildrose tried to ride the coattails of voter anger right into power. It failed. They tried to make the voters even angrier, and succeeded...in eliminating the easiest person they could defeat in an election, thus hastening their own demise as the replacement is virtually unbeatable by them.
Ignoring the policies altogether, the Wildrose was simply a very poorly run political party. It seems to most they had no other plan besides voter anger. And all it took was one major misstep and they were finished as a viable political party.
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LOL this is one of the funnier things I've read in awhile on here.
The popularity of the Wildrose, to no surprise, coincided with the decision of the PC party to move their party to the left; most notably through the levels of ridiculously high spending, over reliance on royalty revenues, and return to deficit spending.
As the Liberals and NDP never offered any different policy for Albertan's to consider, outside of increasing taxes or even higher spending, it only makes sense that a fiscally conservative party moved to take the position previously occupied by the PC's... controlled spending, reduction of deficit. The anger voters focused on really was only precipitated when Redford usurped the PC leadership by promising provincial unions she would move the party even further left. And we all know how that ended up!
We have yet to see what Prentice does with the reigns of the PC's, but it seems logical that the large majority of Albertan voters will still vote for the PC's or Wildrose next election, deciding between a liberal or conservative party.