tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post6059995990486829223..comments2023-09-22T06:22:50.820-06:00Comments on Ken Chapman: Is Premier Stelmach Possible?kenchapmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11384045981190810115noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-27648407747742160572006-11-28T20:12:00.000-07:002006-11-28T20:12:00.000-07:00I dunno, I find Stelmach's cowardice in dealing wi...I dunno, I find Stelmach's cowardice in dealing with EPS violations of his department's policies to be <B>highly</B> offensive.<br /><br />I think I've heard enough days of "Stelmach is a compromise candidate and is neither left nor right". He's not right, that's for damned sure, but I'm not sure somebody who won't fight a battle he's guaranteed to win is much of a "compromise".Feynman and Coulter's Love Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05129851946309441082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-82765544636293595572006-11-27T21:40:00.000-07:002006-11-27T21:40:00.000-07:00Dinning and Morton are good people but one senses ...Dinning and Morton are good people but one senses that they personally see this leadership event as proof that they are each destined for greatness.<br /><br />Stelmach is more Churchillian and is destined for greatness by having the events and consequences of leadership thrust upon him. He seeks an opportunity to be a leader-servant for the benefit of all of us - not a stage for personal agenda's, manifest destiny or aggrandizement.<br /><br />The former is all about the candidates and achievment - the latter is all about the citizens and our mutual progress.<br /><br />We are in a complex and chaotic world that needs thoughtful leaders who are unashamedly principled...and all the final three candidates are definitely that. <br /><br />The difference is how they are animated and by what principles and what are the tradeoffs they are willing to make between competing principles. <br /><br />Rest assured there will be competing principles demanding tradeoffs. How will they make those decisons?<br /><br />It is time for wisdom over cleverness. It is time for character over personality. It is time for servant leaders over powerbrokers.<br /><br />Stelmach is the best shoice for all those reasons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-47009880749558729732006-11-27T20:28:00.000-07:002006-11-27T20:28:00.000-07:00Ken:
I think your numbers are dead on. Based on...Ken:<br /><br />I think your numbers are dead on. Based on my own calucations, I saw this a virtual statistical dead heat and you have confirmed it. <br /><br />Stelmach has to go into overdrive on membership sales this week, but with Hancock, Norris, and Oberg on side he will have some help there. <br /><br />He can stay above the fray and present himself as the moderate alternative, while Dinning and Morton eviscerate each other.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-2082782666984143112006-11-27T20:18:00.000-07:002006-11-27T20:18:00.000-07:00Ken:
Or for us simple folk--if everyone who voted...Ken:<br /><br />Or for us simple folk--if everyone who voted on the first ballot for Ed brought one new person with them (and who can't come up with one person to save our province??)--Ed could easily win. Add that new support to all of the new MLAs + being everybody elses second choice and VOILA Premier Stelmach! GO ED!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-34270011332936326102006-11-27T19:04:00.000-07:002006-11-27T19:04:00.000-07:00The key to a Stelmach or Morton victory will lie i...The key to a Stelmach or Morton victory will lie in the preferential ballot- who's your #2 choice? A strong (and smart) "Anbody But Dinning" movement would give its first choice to Stelmach or Morton and its second choice to the other (Morton or Stelmach). The only way Dinning could then win would be if he garners a clear majority right off the mark on the second ballot- not a likely scenario. <br />The second choice will be the key to victory.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-53763489788806307862006-11-27T18:26:00.000-07:002006-11-27T18:26:00.000-07:00Perhaps Stelmach would be the best candidate to re...Perhaps Stelmach would be the best candidate to re-unite the party. He offends neither the left nor right wings of the party and isn't from Edmonton or Calgary. In the current scenario, Stelmach has the most to offer by being the least offensive.<br />There is a strong "ABD" movement that will leave the party and go to the right if Dinning wins. Over 55% of the popular vote in the 2004 election was PC or farther right- so that is where the majority of votes are. <br />On the other hand, Ted Morton could alienate moderates and red Tories and reduce the popular base of the party.<br />Like others before him in history, Ed Stelmack could rise to the occasion, just as Harry Truman or Gerald Ford did- strong, capable leaders who seemed to rise from annonymity and impress everyone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com