Brace yourself for an apoplectic meltdown as the Liberal media contemplates this future photo caption:
“Prime Minister Harper and new Alberta Premier Preston Manning pose for first official handshake”
Brace yourself for an apoplectic meltdown as the Liberal media contemplates this future photo caption:
“Prime Minister Harper and new Alberta Premier Preston Manning pose for first official handshake”
Oh ya!
During the campaign a local farmer was chatting with Mr.Harper.The elderly farmer was saying how he really appreciated Preston Manning.Mr. Harper said “I do too…and we chat frequently”
If Manning does this his biggest challenge might be the growing Alberta seperatist movement.
“apoplectic meltdown”
YAHOO!
Bring it on!
Now that I’ve got that out of my system…Kate, I strongly recommend Fallaci’s THE FORCE OF REASON that I’m just about through now (2 days). Some very thorough and insightful analysis of Leftist thought, particularly on the unholy alliance with Islam.
Thanks Kate,
Best news I’ve heard all day. Now wouldn’t that be a beauty for the East to gag over. Here’s hoping!!
Pat
No way Kate.
Ted Morton all the way.
Cheers.
Kinda sad to see a man beg for one more vote of confidence after winning four elections for them and barely get it. He must have looked around that room and seen dozens of people who have him to thank for four soft landings and the nice salaries and pensions they have secured and felt almost betrayed.
Whoever gets Kleins job now will be stuck with trying to figure out what to do with all the money he’s got left over after all the bills are paid. Some tough job.
Did I hear a mosquito fly by?
Someone swat it with the sole of your shoe please.
Well, I like Preston Manning. It was because of him that I gravitated towards Reform in the early Nineties. His visions are excellent. Too bad he was an easy target for the Libranos and the MSM as well as the moonbats.
Manning was there in Edmonton while his daddy manned the helm of Alberta. He knows a lot about the province and I wouldn’t be surprised if he wins the leadership and the election hands down.
Wow… what a prospect! Mr. Harper in Ottawa, Mr. Manning in Edmonton, before y’all know it, every province will be run by folks who know how to do it right. 🙂
And it’ll be fun to watch the moonbats get even more unhinged… imagine the weirdoes walking down the streets stark naked, screaming insane, irrational, monstrously slanderous obscenities all the time… and normal folks will just laugh at them for making such fools of themselves and bringing forth their own political undoing as a consequence!
Harper’ll be toast b4 Manning’s next dye job dries…….
April fool to all of you.
Thanks for the tip from Doug on Force of Reason. I just read a few reviews and ordered it from Amazon.
I’m still laughing over Canadian Sentinels posting.
Pat
I like Preston. He was & stil is, a real force in the West.He built a great foundation for change.
I just think he’s not the best we can do. Ted Morton is more in tune I think, with what people are demanding in there leaders. For the 21st Century. Particualrly if we have a show down with Ottawa over the oil patch & other issues.
Good news in any case. (O:}
Ted Morton or Preston Manning would be a good choice. Jim Dinning seems like a closet tax and spend liberal with no vision.
Next to announce: Peter MacKay and Stockwell Day.
Why not?
“…westward, look! the land is bright.” +
The Harper Revolution
The Big Five: He promised change. Here are the five priorities that matter.
The Ottawa Citizen – Saturday, April 01, 2006
Prime Minister Stephen Harper launches a political revolution next week. In the election that catapulted him to power, the Conservative leader’s main message was simple. He promised change. Now, with Parliament set to open Monday, Canadians should ready themselves for a shift in governing — in both style and substance — that could truly be historic. +
http://www.voy.com/178771/10044.html
Poetry X � Poetry Archives � Arthur Hugh Clough � “Say Not The …
And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light, In
front the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look! the land is bright. …
poetry.poetryx.com/poems/9771/ – 14k –
April 1 or no, I’d vote for Squeaky. He was serious and had paid his dues, so how come he is not leading the CPC?
Not withstanding what to think of this whole Klein business….
Manning as leader would make Klein’s 74 seats in 2001 look like a minority government. Don’t get me wrong, poop on a shoe could win a majority for the PC, but I happen to be a fan of obliteration.
And apoplectic is the word of the day. YAY!
Alberta still needs to listen to the people.
Ralph was the peoples man fighting the forces of the Conservative Oligarchy when he defeated Lady McBeth and the old school.This was a bigger coupe and and a less bloody one than when PMPM stole the leadership right from under Jean the Cretens face. That was just old school lib.for old school lib.
Ralphie listened for a while but the the praises and allocades tend to jade one after so many years.
I’d welcome Preston – a man of steadfastness that only a purest preachers son could have.
Did the mainstream media ever report Preston having an adopted native child?? Successful I think. They avoided reporting the adopted native child of Jean Cretian — he was less than sucessful.
Preston ought to put his name in for the Liberal Party leadership. For ‘da balance’ opposite Rae on the left and all that mush in the middle.
I loved King Ralph and wish he had gone with a shorter retirement period. Preston is a great man but his time has come and gone. I like Morton for next Premier. Dinning would force me to vote Alberta Alliance, he’s way to Liberal for me.
This is an internet hoax sponsored by your friendly neighbourhood lefty rag…the Toronto Star.
To their credit, this one is a bit more believable than Bourque’s last two. (Martin to Abolish GST and Klein to be named next GG)
The fishing rod was a dead giveaway.
Trev
Be careful what you wish for. The Federal Liberals had no opposition throughout the Cretien years and look what happened.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It happens over and over in history. An opposition keeps you on your toes.
Manning for Alberta Premier? This is an April fool joke right?
Preston’s old man was one of the most ethical politicians who ever came down the pike; too bad that a little bit didn’t rub off on the son.
Manning was properly punished for double crossing his loyal followers in his single minded dream of becoming Prime Minister. He might have made it too, if he had stayed the course and not destroyed Reform with his cockeyed Alliance with nobody is particular.
Morton appeals to me, but I’d take Oberg or even Dinning (or the first drunk to stagger out of the St. Louis) ahead of Machiavellian Manning.
Harper and Preston do indeed go back a long way, and although Harper would make nice with the man if necessary, he’d probably look for a place to unobtrusively wash his hand after that shake.
Mary, Scott (others?), if this is a hoax, then Mike Duffy layed the groundwork over a month ago when he asked Marjorie LeBretton (if I recall correctly) if the rumour regarding Manning running was true. It wasn’t confirmed or denied.
Canadian Sentinel; I’m with you. The ONLY way I’d consider giving this Party a second chance would be to give Manning a go. The rest have too much under the carpet and are more interested in C.Y.A. And perhaps carrying on where Ralph left off, rather than getting a fresh start and making the most of our situation. The future looks bright.
Isn’t April Fools over at noon?
zoq–I agree with you totally–Manning the Manipulator–when I read he was at the Alberta PC meeting I suspected fixed votes etc. Manning is a despicable person–Chretien looks like a Sunday School teacher beside him.
Morton all the way. Manning would be the death of the Province just as he was with Reform. He talks the talk but only walks his walk for his own benefit. I despise him.
I Manning is the TO Star;s pick for Ralph’s replacement you can rely on their long unbroken record of getting conservative/Alberta politics ass-backwards……what a friggin’ myth. Manning is too old and has burned too many bridges to contemplate a return to the political stage in Alberta’s provincial politics. He hasn’t the support base in the party and there are a couple of younger candidates with clear vision and the energy and populist charisma to make their policies work.
Keep an eye on Norris as the next populist leadership candidate….he has his ear to the ground the way Ralph used to decades ago.
Manning would be the right person to replace Ralph. A sure thing about Manning, he is as honest as you can find them, and it is an easy take over since Ralph got the province out of debt and a mountain of surplus money waithing to be used. Some Albertans are crowing the wrong music, you should be happy with the man that did all of this in his 14 years as Premier. You should be printing some good words.
I don’t presume to know much about Alberta politics nor about Mr. Manning, but those who think that Mr. Harper would welcome his becoming the Premier of Alberta may be mistaken.
According to three pundits on my local radio station (Sen. Hugh Segal, Robin Sears, and L. Ian MacDonald), Mr. Manning’s ascension to “Ralph’s throne” may become Mr. Harper’s biggest headache. According to them, Mr. Harper eventually left politics in 1997 because of his disagreements with Mr. Manning. William Johnson’s biography of Stephen Harper also talked about this fact.
Being a strong supporter of Mr. Harper & his policies, I hope he won’t have to be distracted by problems other than those posed by the minority government.
Hopefully Mr. Manning will decline the siren calls & continue working with Mike Harris on their proposals on public policy, such as their “Vision Statement for a New Canada,” which Prime Minister Harper can either accept or reject.
John T
“honest as you can find them”
Back in ’87, I thought so to, and it took 10 years for me to realize how devious, manipulative and unprincipled he was (or had become, who knows?). He turned his back on the “little folks” who carried him to parliament and destroyed the Reform Party in pursuit of his dream of becoming PM at any cost. When his second cration, the Canadian Alliance, tossed him out on his ear, he tried diligently, through his surogates in Parliament, to destroy it too. Heaven help the Alberta Conservative Party if he gets his hooks into it.
Yes, I understand realpolitik, but if a politician, or a party, has no guiding principles or objectives beyond getting elected, what’s the point?
If Preston Manning were to become Alberta Premier, and were to be half as good as his father Ernest, Alberta would be very well served indeed. The best provincial premiers under whom I have lived, in 60+ years, were Leslie Frost in Ontario and Ernest Manning in Alberta, and I would say that Ernest Manning was the better of the two.
Rather dull, though – nothing to excite journalists. Solid competence.
John Lewis:
No argument from me re Manning Sr. He was not only one of the most capable provincial premiers ever, but an extraordinarily honest politician who demanded ethical behavior from all around him.
Too bad that some of that didn’t rub off on Preston. Preacher’s son syndrome?
And, “solid competence”? He destroyed Reform and left the Alliance in ruins for Harper to salvage as best he could. It wasn’t salvageable, so now we’re right back to where we were in 1987. As Preston himself used to say, before he started promoting his United Alternative, “Liberal, Tory, same old story.”
I think people forget there was a leadership race and Stockwell Day won. People wanted someone younger and more “hip” to represent them.
While Stockwell is a good man, he tried filling shoes of the public that wasn’t him. Worse yet the same bozo’s who did the PR campain for Day were the ones who lost the PM leadership race for Harper, and almost lost this one.
So while the man Preston/Stockwell may be good, the team around them need and overhaul.
Same with the Alberta political landscape…we need an overhaul.
I wonder how Sandra Manning feels about Preston becoming leader of the Alberta PCs? She seems like a smart cookie, and somehow I can’t see her wanting another run at being a political wife. I don’t have any insider info, but if I were her, I’d say, “No way, honey.”
Sorry it’s time for them both to go,Alberta and Canada don’t need these people any more.I am aqn older person and I believe we need young people with vision not ego to see us through
wayne: Does older mean wiser? I hope so. I’m “older” too, but I’m not clear that age has anything to do with whether or not a person is competent. Character comes into play here and there are just as many unprincipled, ambitious, and know-nothing youth as there are unprincipled, ambitious, and know-nothing older people. So, choose wisely…
Stephen Harper is a young person who is intelligent and focused and about to do a very good job as our present Prime Minister.
Belinda Stronach, on the other hand, though young, is not so intelligent, is only focused, it seems, on power, and pretty much had her election bought by her Daddy.
So, what’s youth got to do with it? It depends what the individual person brings to the job, which is totally independent of age.
Garf’s vermin-infested dungeon cell is first-class!!!! BS is a vermin? +
Rebel Conservative MP goes first class on his Ottawa pad
Garth Turner’s new flat is in the 11-storey luxury building, where some units have sold for between $1-. and $2-million. It boasts business leaders and senior politicians, including Belinda Stronach, as its occupants. +
via nealenews.com
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Garth Turner, PC, MP – Member of Parliament for Halton, Ontario” … aka Iggy, aka Mikhail, into the vermin-infested dungeon cell where Garth Tunrer is …
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/003538.html – 113k –
Preston Manning is a federalist (wolf in sheeps…) and thinks he is still running for prime minister as can be seen in his comments at the convention.
“”When my father was elected to the legislature in 1935 (during the Great Depression) Alberta was $161 million in debt thanks to a railway spending spree by our one and only Liberal administration in the first part of the century. The budget of the province was $15 million, $8 million of that was pledged to debt service. That left $7 million per year on which to run the province, with cash flow insufficient to even meet the public service payroll, let alone provide services,” recalled Manning.
“That dark and desperate part of our past should keep us ever mindful in our present affluence of those citizens and provinces less fortunate than ourselves, and energize us in the development of fresh policies to deal with poverty and regional disparities in our time,” said Manning to loud applause.””
He would be an agent for federalism…not a premiers job!