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Ugh…that’s one of our “more thoughtful conservative commentators”? Pretty shallow pool of commentating we must have.

Myself, I have trouble swallowing the “wilderness years doing wonders for their electability” narrative — if “wilderness years” means anything, surely it means the state of being unelectable, no? Turn this story around and you might find yourself arguing that having consecutive majorities in the House prior to the “wilderness years” hurt their electability…when what really happened is they shot their own once-great electability to hell, and have been scrambling ever since to get it back. And they’re not there yet!

The idea seems to be that, if the Liberals really understood what was in their own best interests, they’d embrace this golden opportunity to crash and burn. Meanwhile I’d suggest that, applying the same formula, maybe Harper and his crew could stand a little more time in the protective cocoon of unpopularity, and then when they emerge they’ll be even that much more popular.

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mightybaldking said on December 2nd, 2008 at 10:09 pm

To be completely fair, Adam Daifallah’s site does not say “The [Progressive] Conservatives” at all. It merely references “The Right.”

So, either Graeme did a poor job paraphrasing, or Adam edited the original post.

Your first paragraph as it is, is based on a misquote.

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…I like having elections. They’re fun. Closest thing to a religious holiday I have.

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I live in Alberta, surrounded by hard-right voters. Graeme does mention something important, “A Stephane Dion-led, NDP-heavy coalition government is sure to enrage the Western provinces. That’s a bad thing.”

Most of my co-workers and friends would have always laughed at the idea of an Alberta Seperatist movement. Many of them have already expressed the view that if this coalition happens that perhaps its time for alberta to take its proverbial ball and go home.

Having a country led by a party who loss support this election, who are infact currently enjoying the least amount of popular support they’ve had since confederation… not going to go over well with those who actually elected the government.

Consider how ‘regional’ those voters are, and the idea of a western seperatist movement starts to sound more and more like reality and not just rednecks mouthing off.

-Robert, the scared NDP in a torrid sea of Blue

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