Let Me Fix That Headline For You

Alternative Headline for Eastern Leftie Grenier's hit piece:

"How dare you Westerners step out of line with what us, your intellectual betters demand you do!"

Western Canadians: Not listening to Eastern Liberal shills, proudly for over 30 years!

Those knuckle dragging neanderthals... how dare they!!!

I think that A. Coyne is of the opinion that it is a very good picture,and it is.

He may be incredulous because he knows that it can be expensive to get the Globe to put up such a flattering picture of a non-"progressive" candidate.

Upgraded my wallpaper.

Nice saddle-horse. Best horse I ever owned looked a lot like that.

Just read this screed at G&M and was again amused by how far the Left will go to diss anything conservative.

The gist,"the WR Party MIGHT win,but they won't be around long", is unbelievably puerile,like the little kid who takes his ball and bat and goes home when he gets chosen last.

I hope Albertans elect Wild Rose in a landslide.

I used to be surrounded by Redmontonians. Now I'm surrounded by Cowboys, Cowgals, and Rig Pigs. Culture shock aside, it has been a change for the better. :-)

The Globe and Mail analyzing Alberta politics is like cats judging a dog show.

Lot of hissing and meowling, but no real idea about what's going on.

Well the WRA may not govern for long. They may hasten their demise by moving left like the PCs.

My personal political philosophy is quite simple actually. You the government, look after the things I'm too busy to tend to, you know like infrastructure and stuff and get the heck out of my way while I look after the more important stuff like family, business, religion etc.

What next?

An admission that Alberta pays for all the progressive nonsense in Have Not Ontario and Have Not And Believe You Owe Us Quebec?

The beggars can't call the tune forever.

It's classic that the Globe&Mail thinks that they have any influence here in Alberta. I just looked it up, and they claim to have 24,573 subscribers total in Alberta. That would be slightly more than a regional paper like the Red Deer Advocate, but a small fraction of, say, the Edm Journal (115,000).

However, I'm skeptical of their circulation claim. Does anyone know a real live person who actually gets the Globe as a daily newspaper???

Newsflash for central Canada. We are not exactly like you out here in the west.

Where are all the 'Alberta Spring' headlines in the newspapers?
Odd how the socialist dogs in the media haven't been trumpeting this as the next big 'Spring' movement.

Alison Redford - Queen Rat, I've seen her called - is the perfect Blubb and Wail candidate, for any political job.
She is very statist, with a background of bringing United Nations illumination to various poor benighted heathen.

In other words, she has made a living from the sort of work which decent people won't touch.

That she is in trouble was shown by the article in whichever paper, lovingly describing her friendship with Stephen Harper.

Sean: I just sent you a private e-mail via your website. It bounced. You might want to investigate that.

Something I never expected to see was the appearance of Montreal Canadians Goalie ii Bell Center in full western garb including black hat!

"Where are all the 'Alberta Spring' headlines in the newspapers?"

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/04/08/jesse-kline-is-canada-witnessing-a-western-spring/

Well, harrumph. The idiot who set up the e-mail address typo-ed it. We won't mention his name to avoid embarrassing him. *cough*

Should work now. If not, neutralhills - at - gmail - dot - com

Turtle: Makes you wonder how many hotels are in the subscriber figures. I'm pretty sure that the Sheraton and Delta chains put a Globe on your doorstep every morning, which could end up being a substantial percentage of the subscribers.

If that's the picture they want to give to the Albertans, they just cemented Wildrose's victory. I can't imagine another picture that would be more iconic to an Albertan than that one. Other than a pumpjack in the background. That would complete the picture.

It is actually Rat Queen but Queen Rat works also.

Any day now, I expect to see a photo of Red Ali, leg humping Coyne for a supportive article.

Most Globes are delivered to your hotel door for sure. Some give you the option of opting out, but mostly it's hidden in your hotel bill. Their circulation is probably 50 - 50 hotels, and businesses that have it delivered to the reception waiting area.

Well I'm sure the progressives at the Globe and Mail share the same sentiments as a regular from the (Ontario) Construction Safety Association shared with us last supervisor meeting - "there isn't any room for cowboys".

I hope Wildrose cleans house,looks after there own province, and lets Ontario steep in it's own mess.

I live in Ontario and I'm proud of the Albertans who are willing to kick Alison Redford out of office. There is much to much of "Progressive" politicians hijacking other parties to bring them into the fold. I was appalled when I heard Redford was a UN stooge. Says it all. They're everywhere. Check out every politician's resume before voting.

Ya know I'm startin' to feel like a Berliner before the Wall came down.....isolated down here in Ontariario surrounded by communists.....

The Glop and Flail, and their eastern comrades, have failed to understand the dynamics of western politics.

In Alberta the PCs have been hijacked by the lefty liberals, they are CINOs, and their policies, agenda, and actions prove that out.

The WRA is what the PCs could and should be, but left behind a long time ago.

In BC, we are seeing much the same going on, a return to a REAL Conservative party, away from the sharp left turn that Gordo, and now Chrusty, have taken the coalition, albeit with a strong socialist presence that is minimized in Alberta.

The eastern media, dumb as a tree, pretends none of this is going on, and wants to set its own agenda, as in, "What an upset it would be".

No upset, just a return to the natural order of things, by a different name.

I live in Ontario and I'm proud of the Albertans who are willing to kick Alison Redford out of office. There is much to much of "Progressive" politicians hijacking other parties to bring them into the fold. I was appalled when I heard Redford was a UN stooge. Says it all. They're everywhere. Check out every politician's resume before voting.

Oh, they won't be in power forever, monsieur Grenier. Our risen Lord will return to judge the living and the dead, and at that point the Wildrose will have outlived its purpose.

For now though, they're not going anywhere. Stripped of power the Alberta PCs will quickly collapse, as the BC Social Credit in-name-only party did in 1991. Liberals and Dippers can be trusted to vote for the real thing, not the PCs. The opportunists that were keeping the PCs going will come crawling to the Wildrose soon enough. (If Danielle is smart, she won't give them the time of day.) It's possible I will live to see another change of the guard in Alberta, but I'm not betting on it. Neither should you.

I can see why you're in such denial, of course. A Wildrose government will actually stand up for Albertans against bloodsuckers in Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City, and with support from Ottawa Rev. Aberhart could only have dreamed of. Without Albertan money, crushing Quebec taxes will accelerate the exodus of Quebec's young and able towards Alberta, where they can keep what they earn, afford to raise their own children, and have them educated in the language of their choice. You know as well as I do that that language will not be French.

If you want to tell yourself that the rise of the Wildrose is a temporary problem easily dealt with by the federal government you still think you control (you don't!) and not another sign, and cause, of French Canada's terminal decline, be my guest, monsieur. No, the Wildrose Alliance will not bury French Canada. It will help drive a stake through its heart, behead it, burn the corpse (using lighter fluid made with ethical oil), and dump the ashes in the dustbin of history. I hope to be there.

I love Alberta, I love Albertans, and no one in the east can tell them anything, because Alberta is always right, and the world says so. Go west young man, make your way, tell leftards to go and get stuffed. You will starve in Ontario.

Wallhouse Wart: "I was appalled when I heard Redford was a UN stooge. Says it all. They're everywhere."

By design! And that includes local levels (politicians, NGOs, community committees...). We're incrementally being taken over by those who support a global agenda (no borders, no private property rights, redistribution of wealth, minimum global taxes (Joe Biden), carbon taxes (Gordon Campbell), poverty taxes (Obama), international permission (Obama)...Kalle Lasn...Maurice Strong, Elizabeth May, Alison Redford, Al Gore, David Suzuki...The Earth Initiative, One World, the U.N Agenda 21. I see it happening in my very small town.

Another rambling pointless uninformed Globe missive about the west. You could probably stoch a library with what the globe doesn't know about the west and Alberta in particular.

Seeing the G&M offer opinion on western culture/politics is like listening to a blind man critique an art show.

Can we please stop calling her the Rat Queen?

rat, you should be referring to her as "Your Highness"!

It is actually Rat Queen but Queen Rat works also.

Both are very apt expressions - I propose another - "Nurse Redford" - as in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", even more appropriate,IMHO

How about the "Red Queen"?

And I wish everyone would start calling her party simply "The Progressives". Describes the both of them perfectly.

In fairness, I hope the writer, Éric Grenier, is not being lumped in with the Globe and Mail. I enjoy his blog
http://threehundredeight.blogspot.ca
He enjoys numbers, polls and statistics. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think he's deeply partisan (I can't imagine a left winger being that numerate). It looks like the G&M was looking for a faint hope story that historic upsets in other provinces point to a quickly fading Wild Rose in Alberta.

Nice of the Gob and Spew to out the Alberta regressive conservatives as true feral liberals, when the Gob goes onto attack real conservatives you know Liberal media is so far in the gutter they're hitting shale.

I love the analysis:
1. Albertans aren't your typical Canadians
2. When an Alberta Government is replaced it is usually by an upstart.
3. The upstart has historically won elections in Albert several times after their first win.
4. Other Canadian elections where the incumbent is replaced by a newcomer have seen the newcomer last only one term.
5. Therefore Wildrose as a newcomer to Alberta (and I mean newcomer in the sense of forming the government), is only going to last one term - - - and finally our beloved Liberals of NDP will get in!!!

Posted by: Oxygentax at April 9, 2012 2:52 PM
I used to work for Fairmont, they get a vanload every morning at each property.

The Facebook groups for both Wildrose and Sun News are interesting of late in that you get the occasional person carrying on with the "Wildrose and Danielle Smith are Scarrrrry" narrative or "Beware, Wildrose has a hidden AGENDA"!

Stop for a moment to think where you've heard this before. This was precisely the same fear-mongering schtick that was used against Stephen Harper and the federal Conservatives for YEARS. It was initiated by the Liberals and echoed over & over by their PR Dept. aka The Media Party.

The narrative was false with respect to Harper and I believe equally false when it comes to Danielle Smith and Wildrose.

Good riddens, Lefties and CINOS, people are sick & tired of hearing your lies!!!

Ray Heard, former Communications Director of the Liberal Party of Canada, wonders out loud whether Albertans want to keep in office the "First NDP Premier of Alberta".

Coyne has a point. I don't think 5th Avenue could have come up with a better ad photo and then to have it carried for free is great for Wild Rose. G&M is counting on selling papers and increasing their online ad revenue. Out east, cowboys conjure movie stereotypes. In Alberta, where it matters and where the real cowboys live, the impression is nothing but positive.

The photographer is Jeff McIntosh of Calgary. You'll recognize a number of his photos at
http://jeffmcintosh.smugmug.com/My-Work/

turtle >

"Does anyone know a real live person who actually gets the Globe as a daily newspaper???"

Actually it's a giveaway paper for Air Canada on all its flights. A stack of them is always handed out during boarding. If you calculate the amount of "free" papers each day for each flight it becomes allot of papers they would claim as individual readers. There are probably more similar examples around the country.

Howie >

“Newsflash for central Canada. We are not exactly like you out here in the west.”

Bingo.

“....And we would like to protect our culture and heritage every bit as much as you want to protect the cannibalistic African speckle dotted pigmy tribe of the central Congolese jungles.
Get it? Now F8ck off.”

Perhaps Mr. Harper could take note that EVENTUALLY folks cotton on to the idea that you are a pretender and they go looking for the real thing no matter what name you use for your party.

Grenier's piece is wrong on so many levels it's hard to know where to start. What he doesn't seem to understand is that experience in the rest of Canada does not readily translate into Alberta.

First, there's simply no room for four parties on the left. Greens, Liberals, NDP and PC. At least one of them will have to go.

Second, he thinks the PCs will mount a comeback, thus making WR a one-term wonder. He doesn't seem to understand that in both the last two Alberta turnovers, the party losing government has vanished into oblivion. Where now, pray tell, are the SoCreds and the United Farmers? But Grenier thinks he can ignore three-quarters of a century of political history.

Third, Coyne is right, this is a very positive image of the WR, precisely the kind of image they want to project. Somebody at the Globe slipped up badly.

WalterF: I read Eric's blog regularly during the last few elections. He writes as a neutral, but he does come out soft left in the comments.

For such a tower of tolerance, the G&M chose a pretty sketchy Easter weekend pic of the day.

You Albertans can keep Ms Smith, in Ontario we want KATE!!!!!!:-))))