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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
Saying Nenshi is “too arrogant” is one of the weirder critiques I’ve heard given that we have a premier whose pandering to eschatological extremists and conspiracy theorists on the far right is basically an existential threat to our polity.
And she’s also, you know, pretty arrogant. When is the last time she admitted she was wrong about, well, anything? Even when confronted with inconvenient facts she tends to gaslight and double down.
We don’t need a “nice guy” to run against Smith. We need someone who can win and then steer this province back toward normality while the Conservatives do some internal housecleaning so that they can stop being a doomsday cult and start being a political party again. Nenshi seems like the best choice right now. He’s smart, he’s willing to attack idiots when he sees them, he’s a competent leader and he’s someone who listens to experts instead of Rebel news.
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The next election won’t be about you. If Nenshi wins the NDP nomination, his strategists aren’t going to give a moment’s thought to you and the others in this thread who hate the UCP. Those votes are money in the bank, and feeding your righteous anger won’t make them count more.
The election will be about persuading tens of thousands of people who voted UCP in the last election to check a box beside their NDP candidate this time around. Nenshi’s prominence in Calgary is an asset there. But as a known quantity, he also comes with baggage. Part of that baggage,
as acknowledged by his own team, is that he comes across as arrogant. If that’s a handicap to persuading tens of thousands of Calgarians who voted UCP last election to switch their vote, why
wouldn’t you want to see him tone it down?