Wildrose Country

Doesn't Redford's wish to change the character of Alberta remind you of Obama's wish to fundamentally transform the USA?

Ezra nails it, once more.

ChutzP, absolutely!

If a person says that they want to fundamentally change something then, by definition, they dislike or even hate that thing.

Alison Redford clearly does NOT like Alberta and everyday Albertans. It won't be too long until they respond with their opinion of her!

Huzzah, Wildrose! I've been watching and listening from the Yukon and I'm going to try and get down there for the last week to volunteer a bit. I want to be a part of this amazing revolution.

Her stance on the HRC's, & no personnel liberty rights anti-religious collectivism flies right into the face of all Albertans beliefs. She is a breath of hot air from Toronto trying to play a conservative chameleon. While being a progressive socialist snake. Its like shes a human National energy program come to brain wash Alberta into Marxism.

I have never in my life heard someone so full of themselves as redford. Just before the debate she gave an interview with the Calgary Sun were she said "for the last 10 days we have had nothing but island Alberta talk." The mind numbs that someone no less the Leader would say that.

Alberta has always been a place that welcomes anyone who wants to come here and contribute. But and this is an important but, we do not work or play well with anyone who wants to tell us what to do.

Redford is just the latest to crash into use. All the people and places that have attacked us and lost should form a club, they could get jackets.

As I said before I am working with a candidete here in Edmonton mostly knocking on doors trying to get fence signs up. What started as us knocking on their door asking, since the debate has turned into people calling us requesting signs. Good times.

Robert W. (Vancouver)

You thanked myself and some other posters for pounding the pavement try to bring this off. Your Welcome.

I have never done this before in life, but as I explained to my teenage son who said "dad I don't want do this" as we headed out to put up signs. I told him that I did not want to it either but the Rat Queen is venerable and needs to be taken down.

Redford is done. The polls are all trending the wrong way for her and her performance at the debate sucked. It will get more difficult for her as the dippers and the libtards stop attacking us and start on her.

They know that strategic voting will not help the pcs beat us it will only weaken them.

That last statement sums it all up. The once mighty Alberta PC party is reduced to relying on the dippers and liberals to beat us.

Hopfully what is happening here will give other places a blue print that they can modify for there location and take out the statists.

Ever forward and good night.

oh lovely.

another Western 'alliance' of some sort. sounds rather opportunistic considering conservatives are on the front line opposing, oh, say proportionate representation which is a true expression of DEMOCRACY.

...much thanks are well deserved by Danielle Smith and all of the Albertans working hard for the Wildrose Alliance and their province's future!

I prefer to thank the people who put in the day to day, year after year long hours and labour who make the conditions possible for a more conservative gov't.

People who do actual work beyond just talking about it.

Other than that, it's all just 'delightful'.

Looking at that ad, do you think maybe the PCs thought they were trying to make Alison Redford resemble Margaret Thatcher? Just spitballing here.

Actually Obsoiver2.0, proportional representation is the battle cry of the sore loser. My guess is that you are a Ralph Kramden...uhh...Brian Mason supporter. Or perhaps even Sherman.

It's those in the mushy middle or far left that spout this proportional crap when they continue to get the crap beat out of them each and every election. Then they have the nerve to cry "not fair". Good grief.

One person. One vote. You lost. Deal with it.

THIS is what democracy looks like! Help keep Alberta rat and socialist free!

During the leadership campaign, Redford looked Ezra straight in the eye and lied through her
teeth saying she agreed with his view and was going to clamp down on the abusive AHRC.
Once she got in as premier, the real progressive supporter of kangaroo courts took off her mask.
Not very smart to get Ezra permanently on your case for the rest of your "career" but she was
desperate to seize power. Anyone from the old Joe Clark crowd seems to have a "certain unique
off putting quality" but the female extremist Red Tory lawyers sure have it in spades.

"The Federal Conservatives used to be known as the Progressive Conservatives" ??

Newstome,
The Progressive C are still a Federal party with no seats.

Eeeze E bn drink'n too much Montreal tea

Ezra's flunky as a $45000.00 trip to a NY baseball game.

What a good way to start the day :-)

Allison Ignatieff comes to mind.

Obsoiver2.0 at April 14, 2012 5:12 AM

Proportional representation is a way to guarantee politicians a position in government, even if they lose. PR guarantees unelected governments formed by coalitions; PR guarantees power to the state, rather than our elected reprentatives.

In the Globe today there is a bad, typically eastern headline: "Danielle Smith: Is she Alberta's Sarah Palin, or the future of Canada?"
See here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/alberta-election/danielle-smith-is-she-albertas-sarah-palin-or-the-future-of-canada/article2402264

Funny. I didn't see The Globe run this headline after Mulcair got elected NDP leader: "Thomas Mulcair: Is he Canada's Vladimir Lenin, or the future of Canada?"

The REDfraud Progressives are stinking up Alberta like the shithouse door on a fishing boat. Can't be gone soon enough. The Prairie Grass Fire in Alberta started in Saskabush with Wall and has burned its way over the border into Alberta. REDfraud has even trotted out Lougheed who surprised Trudeau in 1982 by speaking out against including Property Rights in the Charter, only Premier Sterling of Manitoba spoke for Property Rights. The Progressives are so crooked they all sleep in grain augers at night, because they are so crooked they can't lie down straight.

@Obsoiver2.0

PR takes away voters electoral right to decide who leads them and gives it to political parties.

They don't word it that way ...But, essentially any political party proposing PR is saying..

If the electorate can't decide who should lead them, then we need a system that takes that in-decision away from them and gives that decision to us.
We WILL decide amongst ourselves who should lead..
Thats NOT democracy..!

For all of the conservatives and libertarians reading this I highly recommend you read the actual wildrose policy book, it will make the pulse quicken...:

http://www.wildrose.ca/media/2011/10/2011-Member-Approved-Policies-September-2011.pdf

My favorite section is "g"

When the NDP'ers criticize the PC's budget "They don't get to call themselves Conservative anymore" - great observation by Ezra. They are indeed only the "Progressives" now.

Sun News is growing up.

Leftymedia:

I actually read the lengthy column with the teaser headline and I very muh be to differ - IT IS EXCELLENT. Well worth the read. Frankly the wildrose itself could not have written a better one.

Redford's ties to UN global governance modeling and UN agendas explains a lot. Alberta dodged a bullet by kicking this global collectivist to the curb before she could hand Alberta over to NY, Geneva and La Hague bureaucrats.

If she got a majority, no doubt Albertans would no longer control the land they live on - that would be surrendered to UN regulators. The UN NGOs would dictate social reconstruction of Alterta ( we see Redford had started on that before the election )

Thank the fates you had the opportunity to vote in a proper conservative option before the tentacles of UN eco governance strangled Alberta's independence legacy.

BC politics are in ferment right now with our Liberals going the way of the PCs in Alberta. Unfortunately our new party is called the conservatives, perhaps we should have named it the Douglas Fir party or the Dogwood party

Redford looks to me like an average Big Government back-room apparatchik who didn't run fast enough when the kitchen light got switched on. Now she's pinned in the spotlight with everybody looking at her, and her apparatchiki survival reflexes are all wrong. She's defaulting to Bigtime Toronto PCism. Gonna root out them racist Capitalists. Going to deal with those rednecks that are beating up all the hundreds of thousands of wheelchair bound transgendered gay black Muslim lesbians out there who are suffering in Alberta every day.

Which is kind of refreshing really, because that's what the PCs are really all about in this day and age. They're liberals with a different set of "friends" and kickbacks than the LPC liberals. The "friends" and the kickbacks remain constant, the smokescreen changes from red to blue, only the names on the paper bags fulla money change.

Going Wild Rose, there's a chance that they will actually do what they said they would do. Shrink. Government.

And Lougheed is endorsing Redford! WTF - Peter, if you come to a moment of clarity in your senility please give your head a shake.

The ideal result in this election would be a strong Wildrose majority with a PC opposition, and the Liberals and NDP completely shut out, or at least reduced to less than the 4 seats each needed for official party status.

Alberta politics might then finally evolve into a competitive two-party system, with the Blue Tories (Wildrose) versus the Red Tories (PCs). The Liberals and NDP would hopefully be kicked to the curb permanently, or completely marginalized even more than they currently are.

The problem with one-party systems in general is that they always lose their original ideological raison d'etre and end up trying to be all things to all people, and inevitably become mired in sloth, corruption and incompetence, just like the PCs are today.

An unchallenged Wildrose government, over time, would surely drift leftwards and would attract the usual crooks and rent-seekers to its ranks. Power corrupts and absolute power...etc.

Since the Alberta electorate will NEVER elect a Liberal or NDP government, the only viable government-in-waiting and alternative to the Wildrose is the centrist PC party. Of course under Redford the PCs are a leftwing rather than centrist party, but she will only be their leader for a few more days, and in fact will probably even lose her own seat.

Then the PCs can pick a new leader who will return them to their centrist, Lougheed/Klein Red Tory roots. This would have the added benefit of separating the wheat from the chaff in the Wildrose, with the moderates drifting back to the PCs leaving only a hardcore of conservative true believers.

And just imagine the effect on the rest of the country when they ponder this new Blue Tory - Red Tory political dichotomy in Alberta. The federal government and the other provinces are faced with a choice between milquetoast "conservatives" on one hand, and Liberal, NDP, BQ/PQ and Green hard leftists on the other, while the richest province with the brightest future alternates between real conservatives and Red Tory moderates.

It might even motivate them to start their own local versions of the Wildrose to challenge the provincial PCs from the right (hello, Tim Hudak), like the BC Conservatives are now challenging the Christy Clark party. And Stephen Harper, James Moore and the rest of the fedcons should start watching their right flank with fear and trepidation as well.

Jeppo:

here's what's going to happen:

the pcs will be decimated - possibly to a single digit seat count and those remaining will likely cross to the wildrose - if the wildorse will let them. Many will be old dogs who will resign and we may see bye-elections.

meanwhile the liberals will be wiped out and - literally - bankrupt.

Those PC and liberal supporters who crave something more centrist than either the wildrose or the NDP - say 20% of the ab voters - will migrate to the unsung but pretty well-organized party that is currently running - the Alberta Party.

Meanwhile the PC party will go the way of the ruling predecessors - extinction.

(remember - you heard it here first)

OK I want a che tee shirt with smiths picture on it. Revelation is great

Leftymedia @ 9:08
I read the G&M article; thanks for the tip. (long, but well worth reading)

The headline is unfortunate but, for readers that don't know Smith, Palin's name is guaranteed to increase the clicks.

Is this PC icon, Peter Lougheed, the same Premier who buckled under to good old Trendy when he raped and pillaged the AB oilpatch? I guess it must be as there is only one on record. Seriously folks the old Scial Credit was more conservative than the PC's.

IMHO the struggle faced by AB provincial governments is the defence against federal governments trying to get a bigger piece of the oil cash flow and the building out of provincial infrastructure to accommodate growth from that oil industry.

From a geopolitical perspective AB is a threat to Ottawa and USA interests. Ottawa (or eastern Canada) view AB as a economic and political threat as the province's power increases. McGuinty's recent rant is more common thought rationale back east than most want to acknowledge. The only economic strategy this country has ever had was the transfer of wealth to central Canada. That policy is failing in a major way and no one wants to accept responsibility.

USA concerns are economic and national security. USA oil interests in Texas have been accessing Canadian crude at discount prices for decades. That oil is a national security issue as losing supply to S.E. Asia means a potential loss of energy self sufficency in N. America.

Wildrose is another grass roots political effort that has done its homework and has connected with citizens. I dispair at BC's absolute political disaster. A Liberal Party that has no base outside of Victoria/Vancouver, a BC Conservative Party who is making little effort to build grass roots support, and a NDP party which is parroting the old class warfare tripe to gain support. Guess what folks the NDP are winning. Unless the federal conservatives get involved BC will go NDP and in the process undermine the federal CPC support.

This is a far cry from the '80s when Reform's strength in BC meant something. Talk about lost opportunity.

Most pundits declare there was no "knock-out" punch in last night's debate. I beg to differ.

Nurse Redford literally committed Hari-Kiri during her closing statement - steadfastly promoting her vision of ideological societal change without a road map or goal, i.e., change for the sake of change, action for the sake of action. The resulting chaos would surely unleash ever increasing levels of authoritarianism. IIRC, she never once used the words "we" or "our" - it was all "My" and "I".
The Black Messiah must be pleased - I'd say to her stuff your perverted idea of hope, I'll keep and manage the change myself.
She envisions voters and taxpayers as her playthings

Every one of the aspiring leaders decried the current fiscal state of affairs all the while pandering to voters and making hideously expensive promises for a glorious future under their tutelage. History and dealing with the relentless present were both conspicuously absent from their commentaries.

That Globe & Mail article is well worth a read. The article itself, written by Sydney Sharpe, is fair & balanced. But to get a little insight into the devious, unprofessional tricks often played by The Media Party, one needs to look no further than:
1. The headline
2. The pair of photos of Danielle Smith & Allison Redford

As a photographer, #2 is especially galling to me. The fact is that Danielle Smith is a beautiful woman and arguably one of the most attractive politicians in North America today. Yet the G&M found a way to either select the very worst possible photo of her or alter it in such a way to make her look like a lunatic in a horror film. This was NOT an accident. It's precisely the same sort of attack that John McCain endured in the 2008 U.S. Presidential campaign. :-(

"meanwhile the liberals will be wiped out"

ThreeHundredEight.com has them with possibly 3 but more likely zero, zip, zilch seats. Since they're 91 years past their "best before" date, it's about time they finally disappeared.

Gord Tulk, "section G" of the Wildrose policy principals is exactly what I wanted to read.

Robert W. and the same goes for Sarah's media coverage ... The placing of the camera in order to make her appear small and insignificant beside interviewers, is standard procedure now.

Another video clip that, for me , epitomizes all that is wrong with the PC's. It features PC attack dog Tom "Whatever" Olsen on Power and Politics yesterday.

The twitchy body language, smug facial expressions and the condescending remark at the 5:50 mark personify the "we're smarter then you rubes" attitude that permeates the rotten corpse that is the PC party.

http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/Politics/1244504890/ID=2222752117

marc - and isn't it ironic that that could backfire on them... "look, that big reporter is picking on that poor little lady... let's teach him some manners (rolling up sleeves)".

One development that I've been hearing over the last few days is the concept of a "new relationship" between Ottawa and Alberta as it relates to equalization. I really do hope that the Wildrose can open up that whole mess. It's time to cut Quebec and Ontario loose. You wanna vote for socialist gas bags? YOU PAY FOR IT.

Michael Walker (a fellow Corner Book native) must be pleased with the wildrose - the Fraser institute had a major role in its development.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Walker_%28economist%29

When Alison Redford says "she loves Alberta" in Ezra's clip she looks down and to the right. Classic sign of deception.

I read section G's summary. It sounds like the WRP is interfering a bit in union-employer relations. Not so happy about that.

Gord @ 11:06: From you lips to God's ear.

@Gord Tulk,

If the PCs are reduced to a seat count in the single digits, as you suggest, then they very well might go extinct. However, I think this would be unfortunate for the reasons I listed above, namely that Alberta would be better off with a Blue Tory - Red Tory two-party system.

IMO the ideal outcome would be a big Wildrose victory, say 65 seats, and a chastened PC party returned with about 20 or so seats, sans Alison Redford of course. That way they would completely overshadow the Liberals and NDP, who will hopefully be virtually wiped out on April 23rd.

As for the Alberta party, they seem like a flash in the pan to me. The chances of them winning even a single seat are somewhere between slim and none, and slim just left town. Will the Alberta party even exist 4 years from now? I doubt it, not as a major player anyway.

No doubt Redford will make an appeal to Alberta "progressives" in the dying days of this campaign to vote for the PCs instead of the Libs or NDs as the only way to stop the Wildrose. Either this tactic will work, though not to the extent that she hopes, and the PCs will form a sizable opposition to the detriment of the other leftist parties, or it won't and the PCs will go the way of Social Credit and the United Farmers. My preference would be for the former.

james at 12:46 PM

I live in ontario and was going to says the same thing, we should be, and could be self-supporting, if only we had the RIGHT government leading us, and the PCs ain't it

yes we need to start a rite wing party

PS; and don't sent that REDfart clown this way, after she loses:-))))

Things are looking somewhat dreary for the for PCs - some pundits are forecasting a PC minority, others a clear WR majority.
It's anybody's guess.

That said - If the WR wins either a majority (and especially a minority) they will be confronted with the real battleground - an entrenched self-serving bureaucracy that's been forty-some years in the making. The election struggle will be child's play by comparison.

Then there was a TeeVee clip of Nurse Redford during a recent campaign stop in Edmonton, surrounded (by what she claimed was an unexpected flash mob) of enthusiastic police officers, all clad in their usual intimidating black uniforms.

Question immediately arises - Were they on or off duty? If on, they had no right to show anyone political support; if off they had no right to wear uniforms in public.

Either way - A worrisome portent of her agenda indeed.

Jeppo:

Much of the smouldering husk that will be the ABPCs after april 23 will be hangers-on who are very much in agreement with Wildrose policies - mps ted morton and Cal Dallas are just two of many. They will abandon that party as one that can never again become a viable option - just as the Socreds were in ab after defeat in 71 and as happened to it elsehwere (BC et al) and just as the PCs met oblivion federally and in sask. They are goners...

As for the red tory party option - it already exists - go read the alberta party platform.

And if the PCs lose on April 23 Redford will resign immediately.

Paul:

You are not wrong. But with a strong mandate and vibrant party organization backing them, the wildrose has the power to take a flamethrower (apologies to al pacino) to the upper reaches of the bureaucracy.

Allison 'I love Alberta' Redfraud, the unelected, back room dealing, billion dollar cheque writing, sour faced sanctimonious hag.

Careful there Andy, Red Alihag is about to finger wag you. After all according to her she is your better.

Yes, I'm sure she could dismiss thousands of life long Albertans with just one of her extra condescending finger wags....all the while sporting her special sour faced mug & proclaiming
her love for our dear home.

The Land Grab Bills 19, 24, 36, and 50 that the Progressives rammed down our throats are pure UN Agenda 21. Danielle has promised to immediately repeal all of them. The Progressives have even gone so far as to claim the water in our wells and make us apply for licenses for them. Peter Lougheed (I assumed the position for Trudeau) is one of the most socialist leftwing POS to ever come out of Alberta. He actually argued against Property Rights for Albertans when Turdo and Cretin wrote Canada's unratified Constitution. Danielle has promised legislated property rights in Alberta. What will really set off Quebec is that Danielle has promised no more automatic increases in Equalization Taxes in Alberta. She will definately fight for us here in Alberta. Go Wildrose.