April 23 2012: Alberta Provincial Election

[Jacks]

Originally Posted by Knalus

has anyone else noticed how the provincial PC party has added orange to their traditional blue?

Maybe they're trying to trick the Dippers into voting for them

[Bigtime]

Who's Wannamaker running for?

[First Lady]

For the record here is the only commentary the Wildrose has ever made re: prostitution, dated Sept 2010.

http://www.wildrose.ca/press-release...tution-ruling/

[Jacks]

Originally Posted by Slava

The reality is that she's in favour of a red-light district.

Ah, no. The reality is that we have an incomplete quote from an article that isn't referenced, with no context, from 9 years ago.

[Jacks]

Originally Posted by Slava

I didn't end up PC on that scale, so maybe you really should be voting PC?

How do you figure that?

[First Lady]

Originally Posted by Slava

I just want to know why it would matter where she said this? If she wrote it for a Herald article then it doesn't count? That's a good try.

So by your reasoning everything I said as an Aldermanic candidate can also now be taken as Wildrose policy (??)

The reality is that she's in favour of a red-light district. Its not exactly twisting her words here.

It may have been true then, could be true today. Fact remains, she wasn't speaking as Leader of the Wildrose at that time.

[You Need a Thneed]

Vote Compass has me:

60% like the PCs
57% like the Liberals
57% like the Wildrose.

Of course, half the questions are Strongly Agree/Somewhat Agree/Neutral/Somewhat Disagree/Strongly Disagree questions that SHOULD NEVER EVER BE USED ON QUESTIONNAIRES.

I think my vote preference right now (for my riding) is Wildrose First, Liberal second, and PC third.

[Bunk]

Now here's a party I can get behind:

http://calgary.openfile.ca/blog/cura...tirical-wild-b

They call themselves the Unofficial Opposition to the Unofficial Opposition, and paint the Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties as "left-wing communists" (in comparison to the Boars, at least).

Their "libertarian policy missiles of freedom" include:

• Renaming the oilsands, the Freedom Sands;
• Weaponizing the Rocky Mountains—"they have been doing nothing for far too long;"
• Make bacon the official flower of Alberta;
• Stop all immigration, except for Newfoundlanders who "can pass an English as a second language certificate."

Twitter: @WildBoarParty

[Bigtime]

I like how they don't believe in big government, so none of their members will be over 5' tall while standing on their hind legs.

Their policies are "Missiles of Freedom". Paging Captain Crunch!

[Slava]

Originally Posted by First Lady

So by your reasoning everything I said as an Aldermanic candidate can also now be taken as Wildrose policy (??)



It may have been true then, could be true today. Fact remains, she wasn't speaking as Leader of the Wildrose at that time.

Its not that it becomes the new party policy, but you also can't just say that everything said before you become leader is now irrelevant either. Surely the Wildrose isn't taking that approach with Raj Sherman or Alison Redford are they?

[First Lady]

Originally Posted by Slava

Its not that it becomes the new party policy, but you also can't just say that everything said before you become leader is now irrelevant either. Surely the Wildrose isn't taking that approach with Raj Sherman or Alison Redford are they?

I don't think we have touched Raj. And so far as Redford, we've only been dealing with her role as an MLA and later as Premier.

Tripped across this in my research of this topic. Great video (IMHO) that I've never seen before.

http://www.thevolunteer.ca/2011/05/d...conservatives/

[kirant]

Originally Posted by Julio

CBC is doing their vote compass for the provincial election:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/albert...tecompass.html

PC - 68% (64% before re-weighing sections)
Liberal - 60%
Wild Rose - 54% (50% before re-weight)
NDP - 52% (54% before re-weight)

I always end up near centre on these compass tests...I often swing very heavily conservative or liberal on issues, and they end up cancelling each other out perfectly.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by Knalus

I hope this doesn't sound crazy, but has anyone else noticed how the provincial PC party has added orange to their traditional blue? Why on earth would they do that? Are they trying to look like the Oilers?

Their colours have been blue with orange for as long as I can remember.

Here's their awesome website from 2000: http://web.archive.org/web/200012080...bertapc.ab.ca/



So, if I'm understanding the important issues: The Wildrose are in favour of both legalized prostitution and drunk driving?

I know who I'm voting for.

[CaptainCrunch]

The Boar party sounds like an offshoot of the National Rhino party which is a offshoot of the english monster party.

I was tremendously sad that the Rhino party concept just kind of died out, we need more funny protest votes.

I am completely onboard with all of their policies, unfortunately I am too tall to be a candidate for them.

[NuclearPizzaMan]

More importantly, which of these candidates will legalize the murder of phone pollsters and those who hired them?

[Slava]

Here is a blog from Don Braid and the bottom is the argument for a red-light district from Danielle Smith.

http://blogs.calgaryherald.com/2012/...n/?postpost=v2

[MarchHare]

I've always referred to myself as a moderate centrist, but that vote compass confirms my self-assessment. Hard to get more centrist than this:

[GP_Matt]

It seems so odd that they have placed the PC in the middle on the social scale and the WR as being the heavy social conservative party. I have read their platform and would not be supporting them if I thought they were pushing a socially conservative platform.

Social conservatism is a form of authoritarianism often associated with the position that the national government, or the state, should have a greater role in the social and moral affairs of its citizens, generally supporting whatever it sees as morally correct choices and discouraging or outright forbidding those it considers morally wrong ones.

Stealing the above quote from Wikipedia it lists social conservatives as discouraging and forbidding choices that it considers morally wrong. Off hand I can't think of many things that the WR wants to ban but can quickly come up with a list of things that the other parties want to ban or strongly discourage.

[darklord700]

For the first time ever, I donated a month of lunch money to WR. Packing lunch for a month is better than paying Alberta PST forever. WR supporters, put your money where your mouth is.

[Julio]

I want to see if any of the parties who are 'free enterprise' put their ideals on the line and advocate selling ATB...a government owning a bank...how socialist can you get!