A Sigma Analytics poll conducted for the Regina Leader-Post found the NDP had the support of 29.4 per cent of decided voters compared with 57.3 for the Saskatchewan Party. Lingenfelter’s popularity trailed that of his party, with 60 per cent of respondents selecting him as the leader they would least want as premier.
I’m surprised Link is that high. I know there are a lot of dippers in the Prov. but Link is such a fool. It’s like he messes on the floor and then jumps in it. Truth is a foreign concept to the guy. I hope they don’t get a new leader, then again I wouldn’t have to hear him…50/50.
Lingenfelter is yesterday’s man, unable to adjust to a new era of prosperity and positive attitudes. His style will only succeed in areas that thrive on negativity – unions, reserves, university campuses and inner city ghettos.
There will probably always be enough of a attraction to socialism to keep to the NDP competitive in Sask but Lingenfelter pretty much guarantees that the SP will win the next election.
Ling is Saskatchewan’s Iffy.
LC Bennet: “Lingenfelter is yesterday’s man”
hehehe I had precisely the same thought the minute they chose him as their leader, but then again, the NDP is yesterday’s party. I hope Saskatchewan’s done with them for good. It will be hard to resurrect a party whose philosophy is still anchored in socialism and hard to imagine them having the fortitude to abandon their ideology. After all, so much of Canada’s “identity” is based on Sask NDP leaders and policies. What would Canada do without Tommy Douglas and medicare to adore?
What is this Lingenfelter that you speak of?
Someone who pleasures himself with felt?
Fred, is there a story in there that I haven’t heard? Felt?
So, Wall has the mandate Harper would kill for. Thus Wall, unlike the federal CPC can implement much more conservative policies than the Feds can. And budgetarily speaking the sask govt has a lot more flexibility.
How about some right to work legislation
Or changing the healthcare system to a more market driven model
Or privatizing the crowns – telephones insurance etc.
Now is the opportunity for sask conservatives to show some leadership.
What is this leadership of which you speak?
The various government unions are too strong in Saskatchewan for the NDP to disappear.
When Lingenfelter was standing behind Taliban Jack in Ottawa last week and he and Jack thought they were going to make big political points if Harper would Ok the Potash purchase, he looked like one of dashboard puppets with his bobbing head.
Gord Tulk @ 5:25, would that could come true, but there are too many “progressives” in the Sask Party caucus and the unions and bureaucrats would raise Cain. I’m afraid that a little here, a little there is the best we can hope for.
Furthermore, the Sask Party has bought into the carbon trading thing as we were reminded of at the SARM mini convention today.
Who’d a thunk it…………….
(Reuters) – The United States’ only national carbon trading scheme could be shut down within months because of stalled emissions trading laws in Congress, the Financial Times newspaper on Tuesday quoted a senior exchange official as saying.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A10J720101102
“Lingenfelter was standing behind Taliban Jack in Ottawa last week and he and Jack thought they were going to make big political points”
A perfect opportunity for Lingenfelter and Layton to take a few cheap shots at Wall and Harper … or so they thought. Another stupid miscalculation and while Premier Wall was in Saskatchewan being a premier, Lingenfelter was languishing in Ottawa with his equally moronic sidekick, both with their pants down around their knees. What a pair of maroons!
Taking buffoonery to a new level.
If there is such a rise in the right in Saskatchewan, it would only stand to reason that some of those on the right may not totally embrace the SP. Hence, why would numbers be so low for Sask Liberals and Sask Conservative parties? Just wondering, cause surly there would be some uptick in those numbers.
I find it amusing that some are calling the SaskNDP ‘yesterday’s’ party when they are in power today-under the SP banner. Wall hasn’t changed a thing as Jack Mintz makes clear: http://opinion.financialpost.com/2010/11/10/jack-mintz-walls-socialist-state/
I’d be curious to see if the Sask Liberals are smart enough to flank from the right like their Atlantic brethren.