Fall of the house of Ralph

[Biblio Bibuli]

Something BB forgets is that Presto has never been a provincial Conservative. Name recognition or not, it remains to be seen how the province's Tory rank and file would regard a bid for leadership from an outsider.

Something BD fogets is that Yodeler was RIGHT ON THE MONEY when he wrote a letter to the editor back on 27/06/00, stating ... "Today, there are Canadian politicians who are very successful heads of their provincial governments, thanks to Mr. Manning's ideas."

Deborah Gray obviously knows Yodeler very well, for how else would she say in today's Vancouver Sun ... "Manning's mantra as Reform leader struck a chord in Alberta in 1993. Other governments across the country eventually followed suit." ??

Hmm?

[Black Dog]

Something BD fogets is that Yodeler was RIGHT ON THE MONEY when he wrote a letter to the editor back on 27/06/00, stating ... "Today, there are Canadian politicians who are very successful heads of their provincial governments, thanks to Mr. Manning's ideas."

Deborah Gray obviously knows Yodeler very well, for how else would she say in today's Vancouver Sun ... "Manning's mantra as Reform leader struck a chord in Alberta in 1993. Other governments across the country eventually followed suit." ??

And every one that did was a failure. Even the Reform movement sputtered out: it took a Toronto-born and raised backroom type to lead it out of the wilderness.

The Alberta Tories have been sputtering along sans ideas for some time now. Exhuming the mouldering corpse of "Refoooooorm" won't change that.

[shoop]

Dinning has been running pretty hard for a long time.

When Manning enters it will be a race to see who can sell more memberships.

Manning in the race guarantees a couple things. It won't be a coronation and it will be a two-horse race. It will quickly become Manning vs. Dinning. Norris will probably end up third on the first ballot as the token Edmonton candidate.

Last time around it looked like Betkowski was going to win in a walk, but Ralph put in the effor to get it done.

And every one that did was a failure. Even the Reform movement sputtered out: it took a Toronto-born and raised backroom type to lead it out of the wilderness.

The Alberta Tories have been sputtering along sans ideas for some time now. Exhuming the mouldering corpse of "Refoooooorm" won't change that.

[Biblio Bibuli]

And every one that did was a failure.

Just out of curiosity ... who are YOUR heros?

[Biblio Bibuli]

Name recognition or not, it remains to be seen how the province's Tory rank and file would regard a bid for leadership from an outsider.

READ IT AND WEEP!!!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...PStory/National

[Black Dog]

Dinning has been running pretty hard for a long time.

When Manning enters it will be a race to see who can sell more memberships.

Manning in the race guarantees a couple things. It won't be a coronation and it will be a two-horse race. It will quickly become Manning vs. Dinning. Norris will probably end up third on the first ballot as the token Edmonton candidate

Yup.

Just out of curiosity ... who are YOUR heros?

Relevance?

READ IT AND WEEP!!!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...PStory/National

I read it. The real question is: did you?

I said:

it remains to be seen how the province's Tory rank and file would regard a bid for leadership from an outsider.

Along comes the Globe which tells me:

Preston Manning is moving to unearth support among Alberta's federal Tory MPs for his possible run to replace Ralph Klein

Which doesn't really undermine my point. What's more, I find the notion of a federal party trying to determine the outcome of an unaffiliated provincial party's leadership contest to be most unseemly.

[Biblio Bibuli]

I read it. The real question is: did you?

All I wanted was to show Black Dog that Preston has got it in the bag.

But, like the saying goes ... "A man may well bring Black Dog to the water, but he cannot make him drink without he will."

[Biblio Bibuli]

Come on down... Cast your vote ... Give Preston (the Dark Green Horse) your support :

http://www.manningforpremier.ca/index.asp

[Black Dog]

All I wanted was to show Black Dog that Preston has got it in the bag.

By posting an article that in no way supports your hypothesis? Huh?

[shoop]

That committee is pretty shy on people representing rural Alberta.

Airdrie and Spruce Grove are basically just burbs of Calgary and Edmonton respetively.