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    Default MLA Ric McIver expected to enter the PC leadership race

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    Originally posted by Sugarphreak
    If he gets in, I will vote PC again
    Yeah, but against Prentice? Seems like a risky run.

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    I wonder if Ric & Jim would split the vote and some no-name chump runs up the middle, just like the last couple of PC party elections. That's how we got both Stelmack (sp?) and Redford.
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    Originally posted by Masked Bandit
    I wonder if Ric & Jim would split the vote and some no-name chump runs up the middle, just like the last couple of PC party elections. That's how we got both Stelmack (sp?) and Redford.
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    Ric has been a great advocate for motorsports in this province... at the end of the day, he gives me a solid reason to vote PC again. Of course, if he does nothing about the party's idiocy, then it is a moot point and somebody that is more inline with unions gets my vote :p

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    Originally posted by Sugarphreak


    Becides, he is fresh blood with new perspectives, has a record of being responcible with cash from his time on COC council,
    That's a problem. Winning an election isn't about being the most qualified candidate.
    It's about who makes the most unrealistic, bullshit promises to the masses during their campaign, and once elected, doesn't follow through on any of them.
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    Originally posted by CapnCrunch


    That's a problem. Winning an election isn't about being the most qualified candidate.
    It's about who makes the most unrealistic, bullshit promises to the masses during their campaign, and once elected, doesn't follow through on any of them.
    I don't usually agree with Capn, but I will make an exception today.

    Maybe Ric will catch on to this strategy.
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    Wasn't Ric involved in some corruption allegations with real estate developers? Specifically some shady dealings involving the time he sat on the land committee? He was also heavily bank rolled by the real estate developers last election...

    So you all are clamoring for more PC corruption?

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    Originally posted by Masked Bandit
    I wonder if Ric & Jim would split the vote and some no-name chump runs up the middle, just like the last couple of PC party elections. That's how we got both Stelmack (sp?) and Redford.
    Again, this upcoming PC party election will not have a 3rd place. 1st 2 finisher will have a run off.

    So it's either Ric or Jim at this point.

    Ric will steal WR votes.

    Jim while trying to position a bit more right, track record point to a more center conservative and would be tougher to get WR votes. But he will get urban center locked down with that credential.

    My prediction is Jim will win and Ric stay in a major cabinet post.

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    God Help Us.

    There truly is no saving this province.

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    Originally posted by adam c

    Line goes up, line goes down, line does squiggly things and fucks Alberta
    "The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones"

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    ill vote PC just to piss Toma off

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    Toma should run.

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    Toma's platform has a ramp and 2 rollers...

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    Originally posted by mr2mike
    Toma's platform has a ramp and 2 rollers...
    Part time yes, but he knows more than every politician in the country so it should be a clean sweep.

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    Originally posted by Toma
    God Help Us.

    There truly is no saving this province.
    Agreed.

    Not 2 weeks ago, everyone on Beyond was going off about the PC's and how shitty they are, and no one was going to vote for them again. Now just because blinky may be running for premier, the ENTIRE REST OF THE PARTY is somehow not shitty?

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    Originally posted by Tik-Tok


    Agreed.

    Not 2 weeks ago, everyone on Beyond was going off about the PC's and how shitty they are, and no one was going to vote for them again. Now just because blinky may be running for premier, the ENTIRE REST OF THE PARTY is somehow not shitty?

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    It's funny, because a political analyst was talking about the history of the PC party in Alberta, and they specifically mentioned exactly this phenomenon...The PC's hang their entire reputation, good or bad, on the leader, so they've always managed to pull this off in the past...put in a new leader and everyone forgets about their past...

    I really hope it doesn't happen again this time...they need to understand that they can't just keep on fucking with us, changing their leader and saying "hey, it wasn't us, it was the old leader's fault"
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    you know you are making the right decision if Toma opposes it.

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    The party means nothing, it's the individuals that are crooked or not. It not like the party is some computer in a basement sending out orders to its drone politicians. Individual human beings are making the policies and decisions and what party they belong to won't affect if somebody is a good leader or not.

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