The problem with that is that Peter MacKay has been pretty fucking entitled as well for his entire political career.
He can't play a single fucking entitlement card against the Liberals, and worse it allows them to bring up all the shit MacKay pulled as Minister of National Defense which lets act like the CPC is just as bad.
In some ways Pollievre was smart to sit this convention out because MacKay will be in-and-out as leader faster than Andrew Scheer. Then he gets to run against the Liberals on the "reduce the public service, no new taxes" once Trudeau is forced to start paying the spending back in his third term.
MacKay is the wrong choice for leader and the party seems determined to make that choice.
My thoughts on the issue is that I believe that the election of Trudeau shook up both parties. Neither of them realized it was because his promises were downright Trumpian, infrastructure projects, legalizing weed and telling the US to sell us F-22s or fuck off.
(It's like none of our elites realize that we're a nation of fighter-jet fetishists. Avro Arrow and all.)
I digress.
What both parties seemed to take from that election was that Canadians were desperate for a socially-progressive, racially-aware leader and were rejecting the Harper legacy.
The NDP brass seemed to think "we need our Trudeau now" and the CPC seemed to think "we depend on the big-tent philosophy, and that level of majority is best being reduced to a minority then defeated in 6-7 years."
Peter MacKay is the CPC's idea of Jagmeet Singh. First they run the pro-life social conservative, get rid of him then ditch the idea of the Alliance Party by running the last leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. The one who brought Canada it's first female Prime Minister. The one who loved immigration.
Peter MacKay is perfect from a certain perspective. The red tory who rejected the perfidious heiress over a political betrayal, to marry the beautiful Iranian model/activist who speaks out on feminism and social justice issues.
Peter MacKay out-Trudeau's Trudeau on almost every social justice issue. He would be the perfect candidate, if this was 2015.
Someone smarter than the CPC strategists might have noted that people were getting pretty fucking sick of social justice prior to Trudeau's election but they never foresaw him being so bad that people would get wistful for the days of Harper, who most would agree was hated for a lot of very valid reasons (uneven trade treaties, globalism, upsetting UN treaties that surrendered our sovereignty, (particularly when it came to the natives,) wasteful spending.)
The CPC brass is rigging things and playing the long game in a hope to regain power. The problem is that they're out-of-touch with their grassroots and the silent majority.
They won't win with MacKay, but they seem determined to take that path.
Doing the math, O'Tools won't be able to add new ridings that aren't already blue, while MacKay might be able to get the CPC more seat in the Maritimes by virtue of being from there.
McKay sucks, but he's the best chance we have of removing the Liberals.
The problem with that is that Peter MacKay has been pretty fucking entitled as well for his entire political career.
He can't play a single fucking entitlement card against the Liberals, and worse it allows them to bring up all the shit MacKay pulled as Minister of National Defense which lets act like the CPC is just as bad.
In some ways Pollievre was smart to sit this convention out because MacKay will be in-and-out as leader faster than Andrew Scheer. Then he gets to run against the Liberals on the "reduce the public service, no new taxes" once Trudeau is forced to start paying the spending back in his third term.
MacKay is the wrong choice for leader and the party seems determined to make that choice.
My thoughts on the issue is that I believe that the election of Trudeau shook up both parties. Neither of them realized it was because his promises were downright Trumpian, infrastructure projects, legalizing weed and telling the US to sell us F-22s or fuck off.
(It's like none of our elites realize that we're a nation of fighter-jet fetishists. Avro Arrow and all.)
I digress.
What both parties seemed to take from that election was that Canadians were desperate for a socially-progressive, racially-aware leader and were rejecting the Harper legacy.
The NDP brass seemed to think "we need our Trudeau now" and the CPC seemed to think "we depend on the big-tent philosophy, and that level of majority is best being reduced to a minority then defeated in 6-7 years."
Peter MacKay is the CPC's idea of Jagmeet Singh. First they run the pro-life social conservative, get rid of him then ditch the idea of the Alliance Party by running the last leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. The one who brought Canada it's first female Prime Minister. The one who loved immigration.
Peter MacKay is perfect from a certain perspective. The red tory who rejected the perfidious heiress over a political betrayal, to marry the beautiful Iranian model/activist who speaks out on feminism and social justice issues.
Peter MacKay out-Trudeau's Trudeau on almost every social justice issue. He would be the perfect candidate, if this was 2015.
Someone smarter than the CPC strategists might have noted that people were getting pretty fucking sick of social justice prior to Trudeau's election but they never foresaw him being so bad that people would get wistful for the days of Harper, who most would agree was hated for a lot of very valid reasons (uneven trade treaties, globalism, upsetting UN treaties that surrendered our sovereignty, (particularly when it came to the natives,) wasteful spending.)
The CPC brass is rigging things and playing the long game in a hope to regain power. The problem is that they're out-of-touch with their grassroots and the silent majority.
They won't win with MacKay, but they seem determined to take that path.
It's him or O'Toole.
Doing the math, O'Tools won't be able to add new ridings that aren't already blue, while MacKay might be able to get the CPC more seat in the Maritimes by virtue of being from there.
McKay sucks, but he's the best chance we have of removing the Liberals.