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Originally Posted by adc
I think that is the best situation for the PC's to do now. There is no clear cut great choice so put someone in place who can be a holdover leader for the party in the legislature and spend the next ~4 years either grooming someone or waiting for someone outside of the party to emerge.
I am from the Reform/strong right side of the party so I obviously have no issue with Kenney but I can see that he is likely not a candidate that will do a lot to bring back the voters that shifted to the Liberals. Likewise I can't see myself or others like me to support a PC party led by Charest that takes a big step toward the center. Maybe for one election since there likely wouldn't be another choice but long term that seems like a set up to a move towards a split party.
I am not inside politics enough to know if there are some possible candidates in the private sector or Provincial politics that would be better choices but of the names that I have heard (Kenney, Charest, Oliver, Wall, Riatt) none of them seem likely to do much more than form the opposition and none of them outside of Wall (and thats a big maybe) seem to have any sort of personality to them to try and re-energize the party at all.
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Either your side of our party, aka the far right, needs to embrace a leftist tory, or were stuck with Liberal rule for the next decade or longer.
PC/Cons can't hope for the left to simply split the vote, we need to be a party that is center right, not right, or we will simply have a party that forms an opposition to majority governments...
We need the right side of our party to compromise... which is what politics should actually be about, not taking hardlines.
Take a hard line/split the party, you're just going to get less of what you want by empowering a leftist government. All the reform party did was ensure Liberal majorities.