Anybody have any thoughts on how Nicol can turn his party around before the
next election? I think he's got to make the Lberal party "tent" bigger. By
that I mean he's got to make the party less scary, for example if he came
out in support of the staus-quo in regards to charter schools the party
would appear to be less extreme. Any other ideas?
"Stephen Jenuth" <jenuths@no-spam> wrote in message
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> None <noway@no-spam> wrote:
> > Anybody have any thoughts on how Nicol can turn his party around before
the
> > next election? I think he's got to make the Lberal party "tent" bigger.
By
> > that I mean he's got to make the party less scary, for example if he
came
> > out in support of the staus-quo in regards to charter schools the party
> > would appear to be less extreme. Any other ideas?
>
> I'm not sure that pretending to be a tory is helpful. After all,
> running a campaign with the slogan "yup, they're right" is hardly
> something likely to get people to vote for you.
>
> The trick is to decide on a target market which would add up
> to 45% of the electorate, and then market at them. I'm pretty
> sure that coming out in favour of Charter schools would not
> bring any extra votes in, while at the same time loosing a
> lot of votes from people who hope for proper funding for
> public education.
>
That's exactly what I'm getting at...they need a bigger tent. Charter
schools, by the way, are still public schools and not private. To be honest
the Liberal have an image problem. They are protrayed as being big
government extremists,afraid of change and in the pocket of the unions. The
charter school issue would help solve that image problem to some extent. In
reality it is a small issue that would have a huge impact on image.
Publicly and loudly separating themselves from the federal liberals would
be the first step.
I mean, really, Liberals in Alberta?
That is an oxymoronic statement if ever there was one.