Which one speaks passable French?
Depends on what you mean by "Conservative voters". Because Lewis did basically the same as she did in 2020. Baber did a little better than Sloan in that ideological slot. Charest + Aitchison combined and took the PC share Mackay had. Poilievre signed up 311k members, and got 295k votes.
Couldn't that be said for both party's supporters?
That's a bit of a stretch, at least to me.
Just before JT left, they were running hot, which told them that their approach was working - at least at that point. Like the line from the shitty political commercial in the movie "Wag the Dog", "Never change horses in mid-stream ... always stick with a winner" ...
The writing was on the wall like a week or two after JT had resigned. It was a missed opportunity and political miscalculation. Simple as.
Not sure agree with all of that.
He should have said elbows up more.
And that wasn't the only time (with supporters backing him) he said, essentially, his job was to oppose. But at least he didn't give away any platform planks, but there was a price to pay.
And still critics are out there saying "he's not a REAL Conservative, is he?" Back to the "what IS a Conservative these days?" question.
And what do you think PP should have done to win at that point?
Built on who he ran against. His over-antagonistic approach to tariffs - including the stupidity of eliminating peoples' access to Starlink - makes him no better than any other knee-jerk conservative.
So he can count on your vote if he ever runs?
So who is the problem? The past 5 decades or so of elections in Canada and the US indicate that conservatives further to the right of the "moderate-slightly-right-of-centre" crowd consistently support the team regardless whether the leader they prefer is running the show. I have seen evidence - from their own mouths and pens - that some moderates will sniff and walk away. It isn't really ever a "big tent" if a sub-faction walks in and out of it depending on whether the leader is one of their own.
Many aren't going to agree with my views here.
To oversimplify, that's a lot of words for "it'll never be PP's fault."
Yes. I criticize Conservatives - as I have criticized Conservatives here for their needless immature name-calling and picking unnecessary battles - and then I walk into a polling station and vote Conservative. An imperfect Conservative government more closely matches the prosperity (abundance) agenda I favour than any Liberal or further left one. The only faction I'm a traitor to is Boomers, who apparently are sticking with Liberals this time around in order to protect their lifetime of wealth consolidation.
