Jason Kenney's Alberta Victory: An Analysis

The knock against Jason Kenney is he is almost 50 and still unmarried.  Is he hiding an "artistic streak"?  

PS.  Just try to jam that pipeline down BC's throat, tar-miner.  There will be hell to pay.

That is all.

KerMotherFuckin'Flooey!

Danielle Smith, up in flames.  Gals, we only keep rulin' cause you keep believing our lies.  And by the way Jim Prentice does us old white guys proud.  He looks blank, he moves slow, but in reality he's slick as snot. 

Lorne Gunter On Alberta Politics: A Brief Note

The Alta. Tories will replace Alison Redford with a monkey in a suit.  The monkey will win the next provincial election.  A year later, the Alta. Tories will grow tired of the monkey's imperious manner.  And etc.  

PS.  Be much harder to sell their dirty oil, though  Nobody wants to buy from a monkey.

Craig Chandler Asked To Run For Alberta PCs?

He says he's been:
From here.  A weird smell to this.  Alison Redford won last time by rejecting  teh crazies.  Can't see her embracing them any time soon.

PS.   Here's my entire Craig Chandler file.

Will Lindsay Blackett Become Canada's First Black Premier?

He is apparently considering a run for Mr. Stelmach's old job.

In the past I've been quite critical of Mr. Blackett.  His handling of Alberta's human rights legislation revamp (bill 44) was not terribly coherent.  In fact, it was confused and contradictory.

And yet  everything seems to have come right in the end.  Section 3 (the hate speech provision) of the act remains in place, sexual orientation as a grounds for discrimination was explicitly written in, and I am informed  that the parental opt-out provision--which would have allowed people to remove their kid from of a class teaching Darwin or mentioning homosexuality--has been so watered down as to be meaningless.

So Progressivism triumphed in Alberta, perhaps accidentally, and this guy appears to have been standing in the vicinity when it happened. Whether that's reason enough to put him in charge of the province, my Western brothers and sisters will have to decide.

PS.  I would just note that Balckett's handling of Bill 44  drove Ezra Levant into a frenzy.  For me, obviously, that's another plus.

Wildrose Alliance Set To Become Alta. Offiical Opposition?

Up to 10 Stelmach MLAs ready to defect if Smith wins leadership?

Now wouldn't that be exciting.