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I thought I was ready for some picken, but in the end the arrogance of the WR in my riding crushed my banjo. Once they started putting up their signs in front of our incumbents campaign headquarters, well that just pissed me off. He's done a hell of a job here and deserved respect for the 12? years he's served us.

And like you say, the media turned a lot of people off also, around here anyways.

   

All the parties used autodialers. They should ban the use of those f'n things.

   

Christ Jesus, what the hell was THAT?!?!?!? Peter Dinklage is outraged!

I don't like krakens so I told them to say "kitties" instead:

   

A lot of cold feet in AB?

Truly conservative people are very leery of any sort of change.

   

Not leery of change, just not interested in a lot of WRP's proposed revisions.

   

Yeah. Alberta couldn't walk the walk.

   

WRA and the media wrongly assumed that most voters are continuously enraged by the same sort of issues that animate the right. This is a good place to live for the most part. We have problems, but none of them really are the doom-and-apocalypse ones that WRA, Rick Bell, and Dave Rutherford thrive on. As below, for anyone who hasn't been paying attention:

Alberta isn't Arabia or America. A spirit of uncompromising rage like we see on the hard edges of the right wing elsewhere just doesn't cut it here. None of our problems here need to be treated with political or economic puritanism. Most people everywhere are severely normal and the majority of Albertans clearly fall into that sober, sensible, and middle-of-the-road category.

And thank the good Lord for that.

   

Damn my guy is down by a couple 100 votes.

   

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Sure as hell didn't see that coming! I would have been good with WRP being in STRONG Opposition or leader. There'll be no controling the PC's now! They definitely needed a 'spanking'.

   

This is going to be a real landmark for the politician who says "The only poll that matters is at the ballot box."

Hardly neck and neck results.

   

Reflecting on my behavior over the past few weeks, I am not really proud of what I said during the campaign. My Jekyll/Hyde ravings about Alberta becoming an Orwellian were probably the most egregious offense. Deep down, I never really believed my hype because that--well--that was down right insane. But I do not look at the PC majority as vindication and I am quite pessimistic about the coming four years.

But I can always move to Saskatchewan if things go south in a hurry.

   

Link Byfield is probably gonna win with a narrow total which truly sucks. Ron Leech lost in Calgary. And the Hunsperger guy with the "homos" and "lake of fire" comments got literally destroyed in Edmonton. The Byfieldites will probably say otherwise but I think that this really confirms that the bozo-erupting soc-cons have no guaranteed place waiting for them in Alberta politics. I'm sure that the WRA will make the fatal mistake of keeping them around in their alliance, but most voters clearly don't want anything to do with fire-and-brimstone from the pulpit. Fiscal conservatism, or at least fiscal responsibility? Yes. Anti-modern and venomous social conservatism like we see far too often from the Republican party in the United States? Clearly not.

And the SUN is already yammering on the back pages of their website that Redford wants a new NEP to screw Alberta. The fearmongering just never ends with these clowns.

   

So it seems that despite the polls and talk, that Albertans have gone with the status quo and stayed with their single-party democracy. Bravo....

   

Ehhhh, that's not was important in this election anyway. Repudiating extremism and radicalism was more important to most voters than a trendy changing out of parties ever could be.

Ditch the kooks and the economic Randroids and by 2016 the WRA might actually be in a better position to win anyway. A beating like this will actually do them some good if they choose to learn from it.

   

A cheerful response to a beating especially when polls from just three days ago were predicting a slim Wild Rose majority. Rough weekend.

   

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