Free Alberta!

"He was shockingly candid, for a politician: He blamed Premier Ed Stelmach."

He was UNshockingly UNcandid for a politician, he passed the buck to somebody else. What'd really be shockingly candid would be if he admitted any error and accepted any personal responsibility.

And if Red Tory Blackett had said that the proposals of the Wildrose Party were right, that he agreed with them, that the HRCs are "kangaroo courts", that'd go beyond shockingly candid.

And the natural conclusion is: Mr. Blackett is a coward. Good for the Wildrose Party for being on the side of Freedom. The Red Ed gang have always been on the wrong side, hardly any citizens wanted Ed in the first place, he has been a terrible Premier and now he has resigned - he was not a man to lead and he certainly was not a man to follow, those who supported him are as foolish as Ed and should not be rewarded for being lemmings who tried to run Aberta over the proverbial cliff.

I have to agree with Dave in PA on this one. Red Ed has been a boob as a premier, and often has borne the brunt of my frustration with government interference in the marketplace. But as Ed fades not quickly enough into the sunset, expect to see many of the failings of the present PC party to be dumped upon his career corpse.

The PC party is no longer a viable entity to lead Alberta into the 21st century. This province will end up looking like PEI by the time this present of pigs are done at the trough.

And then to have the temerity to blame the outgoing premier for their own shortcomings as MLA's?

Bah.

It's a common practice in business to take huge writeoffs related to the previous leadership in the period leading up to and immediately after the change of leadership. The reason for this is to clear the decks and prep for a rebuild by the new leadership in their own image. This also has the benefit for new leadership of making sure that all of the effects of the previous leadership are properly attributed to that leadership.

So too with politics. Steady Eddy is outgoing. He's already resigned, he's just warming the chair for the next guy (or girl). It's a natural for his ministers to start off-loading problematic policies onto Mr. Stelmach so that the new leader can look like he or she is actually fresh and different and exciting. The danger of this tactic (other than Mr. Stelmach applying retribution) is that if the new leader is Eddy 2.0, then the party itself will be sunk.

It is high time for Wildrose to replace the liberal Progressive Conservatives.

Their use of the word "ludicrous" is ludicrous. It doesn't mean anything.

Ed Stelmach The Harry strom of the Conservatives.
I called it years ago. This is no suprise. That his Minister gave in without a peep, says more about the power mongering done in Politics than anything else. It proves one thing though. Eddy is as Red as a candy apple.

Ed Stelmach is a Liberal in “hand me down” wolf's clothing.

They are getting smarter at ways to gain power in Alberta, which is under leftists attack on multiple fronts.

Canadians need to stand together to hold the last bastion of rational and practical thought on the continent. When Alberta goes down the leftist Liberal road to totalitarianism, the last embers of western civilization fade into the dark good night.