Didn't I suggest that Morton pushed out Stelmach to seek leadership of the PC Party of Alberta?
Well. Now that the cat's out of the bag.. Morton is calling on all conservatives to return to the PC fold, calling the PC Party the "mother ship" for conservatives.
Rumours of Danielle Smith seeking leadership of the PC Party appear to be baseless, using her words, "delusional".
Clearly Morton is the man, that is, unless the galactically stupid in the party happen to take hold and choose someone like Alison Redford.
I can't see it - certainly, the tax-dollar inhaling bureaucracy surrounding the legislature will scream for a "fiscal moderate".. ie) "free spending liberal" to take the reins, but that would be an error of epic proportions, that could deliver the seat of government to the Wild Rose Alliance. COULD it happen? Certainly.. never underestimate the ability of the PC Party of Alberta to be out of touch with the masses.
And rest assured, the PC Party of Alberta is out of touch.
Why is this? I would call it the Ellsberg Theory of Power Stupidity.
As you may know, Daniel Ellsberg was a former U.S. Marine Lieutenant, Pentagon Military advisor under Lyndon Johnson and RAND corporation employee who, in 1971 leaked what became known as "The Pentagon Papers", disclosing widespread lies and deception by the U.S. Government against their citizens respecting the Vietnam War.
While I think Ellsberg has become somewhat enamoured of himself, he made a very interesting observation in giving advice to Henry Kissinger as he was entering government for the first time. Essentially, he spoke of the danger of being "on the inside":
...it will have become very hard for you to learn from anybody who doesn't have these clearances. Because you'll be thinking as you listen to them: 'What would this man be telling me if he knew what I know? Would he be giving me the same advice, or would it totally change his predictions and recommendations?' And that mental exercise is so torturous that after a while you give it up and just stop listening. I've seen this with my superiors, my colleagues....and with myself.While the faces have changed somewhat over time - the essential power structure of the PC Party of Alberta has been "on the inside" of government in this Province since August 30, 1971. Going on forty years. One government. 40 years of "knowing things that you don't know".
"You will deal with a person who doesn't have those clearances only from the point of view of what you want him to believe and what impression you want him to go away with, since you'll have to lie carefully to him about what you know. In effect, you will have to manipulate him. You'll give up trying to assess what he has to say. The danger is, you'll become something like a moron. You'll become incapable of learning from most people in the world, no matter how much experience they may have in their particular areas that may be much greater than yours."
Think about that. And think about what Ellsberg told Kissinger.
40 years of thinking you know more than everyone else.
40 years of becoming "something like a moron".
And then think about Ted Morton's musings that the PC Party is "the mother ship".
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Are all the Bureaucrat, CUPE and teacher union types who bellied up to the bar and slapped down a fiver so they could vote in the Prog-Con Party of Alberta leadership race going to stay home and save their money this time?
Not Bloody Likely!
Morton can waste his time trying if he wants, but someone should inform him that it's all rigged and he'll end up being nothing but a stage prop used by the greedy, power lusting Leftists who have surreptitiously taken control of the Prog-Con Party.
The so called Mother Ship is rotted out with corruption and greed and what Ted really needs to do is “Abandon Ship!!” and man the life boats!
He be doomed if he don’t!
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