Brad Farquhar has reduced Ralph Goodale’s 33% lead in Wascana to a statistical dead heat.
What used to be one of the safest Liberal seats in Canada is now a horserace.
Brad Farquhar has reduced Ralph Goodale’s 33% lead in Wascana to a statistical dead heat.
What used to be one of the safest Liberal seats in Canada is now a horserace.
Not surprising that this riding is starting to swing Conservative. The Wascana riding has been known as a riding that swings with party in power, and since Conservative will be the government, Ralph Goodale will be useless! I have been hearing that his credibilty has been in questioned by voters for where was Raplh and Paul as Finanace ministers standing up for Canadians when the Liberal Party was stealing tax dollars. Only when caught did Ralph and Paul claim there are going to get to the bottom.( And not pay it back until forced)
Remember the Thief can’t be Cop all in the same breath!
You go, Brad!!
O/T
Just to lighten things up a bit. Remember back to the “93” election the story went something like this.
Liberals said vote for me – we will take care of you from Birth to Death.
Conservatives not to be outdone said – vote for us we will take care of you from the Womb to Tomb.
NDP said don’t listen to them we will do better – we will take care of you from Erection to Resurrection.
Keep smiling – only 3 more sleeps.
Hey, Brad did a good job bringing democracy to Tajikstan, maybe he can do the same here in Canada?
“A former Executive Assistant to Saskatchewan’s Leader of the Opposition and Executive Director of the Saskatchewan Party, Brad recently returned from four months in the former Soviet Republic of Tajikistan, where he taught basic campaigning techniques to the six registered political parties.”
Among other accomplishments, Brad invented Canadian politics on the internet:
“His accomplishments include the launching of the first web site for a Canadian political party in 1994.
By the age of 20, Mr. Farquhar had travelled to 35 countries on four continents, and has lived in Europe and the Caribbean. Over the past year, Brad has been working on the development of a to-be-named non-partisan organization of Canadian democrats dedicated to the global advancement of democratic principles, ideals, and institutions.”
We wish Brad much success, as Mr. Goodale’s budget process has much to be desired.
I am sure Brad will aquit himself handily with the voters of Wascana.
Headline coming soon: “Brad The Lion delivers ballot mauling to Ralph Goodale”
looks like fast life – end might be near too.
Two things excite me about this election besides the apparent Conservative national surge…
1) Quebec! I’m amazed/ecstatic that there’ll apparently be some Conservative MPs from Quebec.
2) Brad Farquhar’s rise in Wascana! I’m hopin’ Saskatchewan will go total blue Monday night.
Way to go Brad!
But, you DO have an unfair advantage.
You Blog.
More proof that the political landscape in Canada is changing.
On the back of my truck it reads; “Free Saskatchewan! End the Socialist Regime!” When loading at Lynnterm dock in North Vancouver on Wednesday a longshore read this and started to laugh. He stopped the forklift, got out and had to shake my hand. When I told him I had bumperstickers with that slogan he replied;”I got to get one! I can’t stand those #@*##!” Even the longshoremen are tired of the left-wing.
Think about it, ONE of Ralphs best buddies and supporters makes a pile on income trusts after having a meeting with Ralph just hours before the anouncement. While hundreds of hardworking Saskatchewanians see their investmests have the floor drop out of their investents and panic sell in the weeks before. Libs rule by fear and intimidation and yet us pro market people are called fascists by them, what gives.
Rob
Looks like Ralph’s campaign team will have to invent a sex scandal to stop the CPC candidates momentum. 😉
AdScam Chretien/Martin has swallowed the chalice of Kool-Aid. >>>>
The Poisoned Chalice
17 January 2006, 13h32
While it may have been inevitable, and even late in coming, the event itself was no less momentous for me. This morning, I received my first “Leadership Telephone Call” (TM).
With less than a week left in the election campaign, potential leadership candidates and their surrogates are organising in earnest. At the risk of sounding uncharitable, the call I received came from an MP whose main contribution to a leadership contest would be to increase the number of candidates in, rather than the quality of, the field. Nevertheless, this is part of a trend that bodes ill for the Liberal Party.
One of Paul Martin’s lasting contributions to the Party’s culture is the legitimisation of regicide. The Party had previously ousted ailing leaders, but had never shown the door to a sitting Prime Minister, a leader who still carried the democratic imprimatur of the national population. In the short term, Paul’s strategy was successful in crowning him, but in the long term, “we but teach / Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return / To plague the inventor; this even-handed justice / Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice / To our own lips”.
My greatest fear for the Liberal Party is, however, not the perpetuation of internecine warfare. It is the instinct of organisers that the answer to one fallen messiah is the installation of a new one.
If there is no fundamental reform to and rejuvenation of the Liberal Party itself, then no matter how talented or well-intentioned the next leader may be, that person will suffer the same fate as Paul Martin.
In a democracy, we never receive the government or the Party we deserve. We only receive the government and the Party we demand and that we help to create. The next Liberal leader will only succeed if we renew our Party, and rebuild it upon liberal-democratic ideals rather than a hollow cult of personality or the empty pursuit of power for its own sake.
The Liberal Party must change itself, not just exchange its leader. >>
http://www.maharaj.org/blog.shtml
How could he start with a 33% lead, with the baggage he carried?
At the risk of putting cold water on things.
Quebecers are voting for the main chance, they don;lt want to be frozen out. Ideologically there is no conservative base of note.
The Conservative MP’s are all people chosen back when getting elected was a dim and distant dream, so we might be talking commited or quixotic, we aren’t talking experienced = I suspect we have a bunch of potential MP’s who could be liabilities once the Press has time to actually look at them closely.
In the same way that PC’s in quebec under Mulrooney morphed into liberals or bloc, quebec is a shifty base for the Conservatives.
The Winnipeg Free Press reported today that Winnipeg South Centre, another Liberal stronghold (Lloyd Axworthy’s old stomping grounds) is tied 32-32 with the NDP at 25.
Just a silly thought…i read over at Angry’s site about the possibility of the Liberals and NDP teaming up and forming a coalition.
I believe one poster said this was already done in Ontario, so why not try it at the Federal level?
cheers
tom
jypsy…
Liberals said vote for me – we will take care of you from Birth to Death.
Conservatives not to be outdone said – vote for us we will take care of you from the Womb to Tomb.
NDP said don’t listen to them we will do better – we will take care of you from Erection to Resurrection.
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bad bad…boo hiss!!!
hehe
😉
Ralph will just have to run as an NDP candidate next election. He should do well in Saskachewan. I don’t see the guy retiring like many of his ilk…
Another Liberal charged with fraud (from the CTV News section on mysask.com ):
“No one at the RM of Sherwood office knew of the charges against their reeve until they picked up the morning paper. Police say they’d been looking into the matter for quite some time. ”
“Linda Boxall has been reeve of the RM for about a year and a half. Back in the ’80’s, she ran unsuccessfully for the Liberals. She’s currently out of the country on vacation. Police aren’t revealing any of the circumstances surrounding the fraud charges. ”
“BRIAN JONES: “Those fraud charges were laid naming the government of Canada as a victim of that fraud. Those charges are now currently before the courts.” ”
Interesting….how many Liberals are finding themselves in hot water these days, charged with defrauding the federal government.
Brad, Please have LOTS of srutineers at EVERY polling station and get them to COUNT the voters.
Where there is corruption there is fraud.
Lyle, Brad has an even bigger advantage he’s honest.
The interview of Ralph Goodale by CBC’s Peter Mansbridge back on Dec 30th will always stand out for what he said on national tv … that he, Ralph Goodale, reviewed his own conduct regarding the trust scandal and judged himself to be clean, therefore he saw no reason to step down as Finance Minister!
Saskatchewan will deserve to be the ‘doormat’ to Alberta if they re-elect this Liberal who thinks he’s entitled to be his own judge and jury.