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Originally Posted by Azure
But don't forget, O'Toole wasn't good enough.
A centrist, charge of party, usually middle of the road.....not good enough.
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I am absolutely not a PP fan, but I will never understand why O'Toole wasn't a good check as a minority government leader to tell the Liberals that their corruption and overall pathetic was of governing is not acceptable.
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O'Toole tried to appease both moderates
and the far-right element of the party that was at risk of jumping to the PPC. He appeased neither, and came off as a wishy-washy politician who couldn't be counted on to mean the things he said.
The CPC had a winning candidate, IMO, in Peter Mackay, but he wasn't palatable enough to the nutjob contingent that wasn't entirely sold on the PPC to leave. Let PPC have the nutters, get a leader that can make the CPC appeal to the broader population, and you'll get a win. But that isn't PP, he's woefully unlikeable.