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Social libertarian/Fiscal Conservative - 1
Right Wing hard Core - 0
Today, the First Salvo in the Battle is Over and has come to an end with a good result.
This afternoon it was announced that Danielle Smith had won the leadership race for the Wild-rose Alliance Party of Alberta over her challenger Mark Dyrholm.
Now the Dyrholm Team had Mark who seems like a decent guy up front as the Candidate then in the back ground he had a number of Well Known Far-Right wing conservatives that would like nothing better than to have society in Alberta Legislated by the Bible. The platform Mark had (what ever that was) seemed to get pushed aside by his supporters and instead they came at any one that asked about open thought with the attitude of “The Bible guides all thought” and if you questioned that you were a atheist, Gay loving, Baby killer and between the insults they would offer to “Save you” if you came to the Dyrholm camp of thinking.
So now you may ask How did these Guys plan to win? WELLL that’s the funny part the stratigist of the team felt that he has the pulse of Albertans and speeks for Albertans….(Un HUN….This from a guy that moved to Alberta in 1995 from Ontario) Felt that the religious right of the province would support this type of politics. Surprise…He should have looked at the numbers …..Although Alberta is the religious mother land of Canada with over 70% of Albertans saying they identify with and support religious beliefs …. Only 40% go to church and less than 2% of Albertans think that religion is the only guiding force in there lives. Hum that means 98% don’t go hard on religion.
So what do Albertans go hard on? That’s easy Family “THERE OWN FAMILY” they want to give there family every thing they want and need in life . Albertans also go hard on making money this they need to do in order to cover the No. 1 thing,.. and along with the 1st thing and the 2nd thing they would like to live long enough to spend the number 2 thing. Albertans really go hard on getting there kids an education of caliber so that they can go to top post secondary schools and to do this the kids need to understand that the Sun does not revolve around the Earth and that the first cloning experiment did not involve Adam or the garden of Eden. Out side of that every thing else is irrelevant and really they only need A Governing body to manage the province so that Albertans can do those 4 things in peace and happiness for ALL.
Now this brings me to the Winner!!!! Danielle Smith
Danielle’s team ………… Well I’m sure they are there but Danielle is the Package and stands on all calls as her own. I found that she has a group of key supporters (not as much a TEAM,) that works together to build the party and that seems to be happening so far so good. When you are contacted by Smith supporters you are engaged by “Steady Eddy faux-pas” AND what is needed to be done to correct them!.
Instead of insulting your intelligence they admit to past failings and look towards a new way to get back to “The Alberta Advantage” . The supporters I’ve talked with have lived in Alberta since birth or at the vary least since the last time our province had a heart attack back in 80-81. So I found a lot of Smith Supporters understood that LIBERAL meant “Liberal party of “Canada” interchangeable with” Alberta” and that is the nasty piece of work that GAVE us our last heart attack!!!!!! On the other hand Libertarian/Conservatives that’s an Idea “due its time” and may work ….No will work! In Alberta.
Ok now your thinking…..well I did not know that! or maybe its “Ya like sooooo Tell me some thing I don’t Know” and if your in the first group keep reading and if it’s the second group get some one else to read it.
Tom Kovacs
