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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
My obviously right-wing slant on CPC leadership
Being right about the economy doesn't allow you to be wrong about everything else. When the CPC focuses on ridiculous 'social issues' like what somebody chooses to wear and playing on fear rather than on responsible economic policies, they will certainly lose. When any political party plays solely to a faction of their base they have no chance of winning with the general voters. Anyone that believes in a conservative economic action plan needs to make sure the party has learned this lesson and moving forward works towards combining good economic decision making with smart, relevant social understanding/policy. Today's leaders are energetic, positive, accepting, progressive people - exactly the opposite of how the CPC leadership ran this campaign. Whomever it is, I look forward to the day the CPC has leadership whose ideas are worth getting excited about again.
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I think the way Harper ran his campaigns was really short-sighted and may end up hampering the Conservatives for the next little while. He did a really good job of setting them up with a high floor, but their ceiling is limited and their potential for growth has been completely stunted because they did absolutely nothing to appeal to young voters, especially those with a university degree. So any new leader is going to have an uphill climb, as you basically have a whole generation of voters who've been ignored by the Conservatives.