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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2015-10-20 10:02 am
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Rebuilding the ReformaTory brand
Step One: brutally purge all the unreliable elements. I am not going to say who they are but we all know.
Step Two: election a new leader who is world-famous, who can embody the true heart of the modern ReformaTory Party.
I speak, of course, of Calgary's favourite son, Ted Cruz.
Step Two: election a new leader who is world-famous, who can embody the true heart of the modern ReformaTory Party.
I speak, of course, of Calgary's favourite son, Ted Cruz.
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-- Steve's shaden may be over-freuding.
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-- Steve also points out that refunds are only granted in the form of store credit.
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I think that would be hard on his poor mother.
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What they really need is someone with generally neutral social views, Conservative economic views, and connections. Too bad I can't think of anyone who isn't a Liberal eminence grise; maybe they could take Michael Ignatieff?
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As for who actual conservatives might pick as a leader, that's a little more difficult. Harper spent close to a decade purging the party of anyone who might have represented a resurgence of the old Tories, so there's not a lot of viable candidates remaining.
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MacKay is one of the very few exceptions who has some national recognition in his own right, but from the Conservative perspective he's got a few strikes: one, he's from the part of the country that most emphatically put the boots to the Conservatives. Second, they suspect he's one of those old-guard Red Tories.
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Maybe we can assign the torture predilection to Count Nikolay Pavlovich on the other side?
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And other people's children, as well.
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LOL LOL LOL
Nicely-said.