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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Yeah, these rubes are never going to form a government. It seems like they don't even really want to. They just want a platform to express their displeasure at stuff other people do. Classic grass-roots, populist, howling-in-the-wilderness politics.
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The problem with the Wildrose, is that the Wildrose was a party built out of protest and a merger of two far right fringe parties. I won't deny that they have a strong grassroots support and they've done a good job of marketing and solidifying their base, but the also are their own worst enemy.
They also have continued to show that once they're on the verge of making a break through and potentially appealing to the mainstream they manage to self destruct. If you look at things starting with the Redford election they managed to drop that election with the Lake of Fire comments. They should have won at least one by-election during the Prentice four by-election (Calgary-West should have been won by Sheila Taylor, yet they managed to abandon her at the last minute), the pushed away most of their most moderate and strongest voices at the AGM in 2014 and after all the good will that Jean built during the fires in May they are now spending the NDP convention weekend try to stop the runaway train of gossip and internal strife that is going to be a distraction all summer.
They now have less than 3 years to figure it all out, but I really doubt they'll be able to.