The Wildrose Alliance continues to seemingly pick up steam and most PCs I talk with are concerned that upper party brass just don't seem to care. A sense of invincibility and triumphalism has spread throughout Ed's entourage since the 2008 election; they feel they can do whatever they want. As Ron Liepert so eloquently put it, "screw the opposition, we got our majority."
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the PCs have become too big of a tent. Parties are meant to be coalitions of individuals who, for the most part, can agree and find compromise. The PCs however, have come to dominate Alberta politics to such a degree that pretty much anyone who wants to have any sort of influence whatsoever just joins them. Thus you have a party where, at least on some of the edges, people have nothing to agree about. That's why the Wildrose Alliance seems to be picking up strength - it appeals to the hard-right conservatives who feel as though they no longer have a place within the PCs.
What I find an interesting question then is, do progressives within that Party feels as thought they still have a place in it?
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