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The BC Conservatives Descent Into Hell: The Ghosts in the Machine are REAL…

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Well, that didn’t take long did it?

After totally failing to capitalize on the arrival of a completely unqualified Premier–who quickly went into lavish freefall, inclusive of a brilliant swan dive, the BC Conservatives have decided that they really don’t want to be the province’s next government and would like to hand back the gains they’ve made–largely through default.

Read this. Now read this. The second, is, of course, a piece I wrote two years ago, almost to the day. It explains why highly-offensive former MP Randy White, nice man that he is, fails to qualify as an advisor to anything except perhaps a local church group.

He has reappeared as a campaign chieftain for the BC Conservatives, in what must be the single stupidest move they’ve committed, ever.

Well, there was the election of Pastor Reed Elley as their President last year. Apparently, the good Pastor, and all his bigoted comments about homosexuals, will be gone soon. So, to keep the Evangelical nutter constituency happy, they’ve trotted out White, who will be an easy target for the salivating, hand-rubbing BC Liberal election-readiness team.

Regardless, the BC Conservatives are done. I’ve never witnessed so many idiots that haven’t the first clue how to run a campaign. Not a clue. An interesting omission is Conservative wunderkind, the Oxford-educated Hamish Marshall, who for all of his stubbornness and youth, would have served them worlds better than White and the social too-conservative nutbars, who are clearly in control.

Brian Peckford as an advisor? Really? Wonderful guy and a good former premier OF NEWFOUNDLAND. But we aren’t redrawing Confederation are we? Did the Pequistes burp in Quebec City? Is Trudeau’s ghost dancing somewhere and I missed the CBC celebration?

So much for landing star candidate Rick Peterson. He can forget his chances of election in Quilchena. They’ve been vaporized. The BC Liberals will hammer him with a recitation of White’s insane comments over the years and Conservatives in that riding–mostly Red Tories, will either stay home or vote Liberal. Sorry Rick. It’s over, unless you can get rid of the problems in your party. And they are obviously, painfully gargantuan.

Beginning with your leader.

So much for the John vanDongen cross-over–that’s now been made null and void. And don’t be surprised if he soon sits as an Independent. If that happens, and vanDongen should firmly threaten them immediately–he’s certainly clever enough–that they either get rid of White or suffer such a blow, then the BC Conservatives will drop to below 10% and be more irrelevant than they are today–if that’s at all possible, having provided Randy White with a seat anywhere outside a church pew or a barn.

And they’ve earned it in spades: Stubborn, inexperienced neophytes at the controls, aided and abetted by whackjob has-beens with social opinions that belong in a Quaker community, and saddled with a stuck-in-neutral septuagenarian, who looks older by the day, than his exhausted and often times confused (and confusing) rhetoric.

This is an alternative to the corrupt Liberals? Seriously???

Don’t be surprised if in May 2013 the BC NDP wipe clean the entire map, save for a couple of seats.

Now it’s really over for the BC Conservatives. Don’t send them any money, tear up your memberships, PUNISH THEM for being such unfathomable fools!

Cummins told me long ago that he wasn’t “completely comfortable” with White or Elley.

Clearly, he was lying.

For that reason alone, he must go, too.

Isn’t two lying premiers, back-to-back, enough?

IDIOTS!!! Missed every opportunity and now this?!

DOCTRINAIRE IDIOTS!!!

 

Author: Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2012 
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213 Responses to “The BC Conservatives Descent Into Hell: The Ghosts in the Machine are REAL…”
  1. Bradybunch says:
    August 10, 2012 at 11:23 PM

    We must all refuse to partake in any online voting, and pass that on to your friends.. Get our lazy ass– off our computers/couches and vote at our regular polling stations, that being schools, churches, community centres, as we always did in the past.

    Without completely proven checks and balances in place before any type of online voting should happen, there is far too much chance of rigged election fraud, no matter how much they tell us it simply won’t be that way!!!!!

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    • whiterockj says:
      August 11, 2012 at 11:27 AM

      new technology just means a new way of beating it comes along.

      i just dont think this can be done without the possibility of fraud… and considering only a few thousand votes could swing multiple ridings.. leave it the way it is.

      real people checking valid government id from a live person.

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  2. Ike says:
    August 11, 2012 at 7:21 AM

    Did anyone else get the BC Cons weekly email today? Reed Elley brags about his Nanaimo riding association, working local fairs and getting —- wait for it —- 7 new and renewed memberships this summer. “Who says the summer has to be laid back time?” he writes.

    Talk about not ready for prime time!!!!!!!

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  3. Seymour Forest says:
    August 11, 2012 at 7:55 AM

    Agree.

    If people can stand in line for hours to get the latest iPhone (which will be old by the time you use it the first time anyway), they can take the time and vote. Same if people stand in line waiting to get into a Justin Bieber concert, or a ZedZed Top concert.

    What are we?? Are we getting too fat and lazy that we can’t work up a sweat to waddle down the sidewalk to vote? Too busy to yak on the cell phones to put them in the pocket to vote?

    It also menas that people should get off their fat behinds and actually get out there and help a candidate by walking a neighbourhood , rather than squish those bum cheeks in a chair writing to blogs.

    Besides, this online voting will NOT be available for the 2013 election.

    There will be a means for public input through an Elections BC website. Look for it at a computer near you.

    Send an email to your MLA (particuarly if that MLA is NDP and is running for another term).

    It will be the NDP government (not a BC Liberal one) that will ultimately decide if online voting is approved.

    Given the antics of both Christy Clark’s and Kevin Falcon’s campaigns in regards to handling online voting, and the trouble the NDP Leadership had with it, I’m surprised either the BC Liberals or NDP would be in big support of such an idea.

    Too many things to go wrong. Heck even the OCR “fill in the arrow” ballot cards have had problems in reading results, but those aren”t
    common.

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    • Jay Jones says:
      August 11, 2012 at 11:10 AM

      I’m quite certain all of AGT’s readers grasp the importance of voting.

      What I believe many are likely struggling with, is which “proven” pathetic-to-the-extreme party to vote for.

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  4. George says:
    August 11, 2012 at 9:08 AM

    I read this story last night, but I missed something until I read this comment by Bill T..

    .I think it makes a huge statement, especially with the current class action suit going on by female RCMP officers..

    Bill Tieleman
    Yet more bad publicity for the RCMP! How do they do it? And Basi-Virk case watchers will note a familiar name at the end of this report.

    RCMP blacklist B.C. psychologist critical of force…

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/08/10/bc-rcmp-critic-psychologist.html

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    • Shell says:
      August 11, 2012 at 11:47 AM

      Well, well well… just when you think a new low is not possible!

      Supt. Kevin DeBruyckere – the lead investigator in the so-called investigation of the B.C. LIEberals sale of B.C. Rail – is now denying
      payment to the psychologist who is treating R.C.M.P. officiers.

      Looks like Supt. Kevin DeBruyckere doesn’t like the truth – even when it concerns his own men & women’s well-being.

      R.C.M.P. members that are patients of B.C. psychologist Mike Webster have been told to find another doctor, or pay for Webster’s sessions out of their own pocket.

      20 years of this by contract you say?

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  5. Stevie Ray says:
    August 11, 2012 at 1:37 PM

    The BC Cons had a booth at Ladysmith days, as did a motorcycle ” club ” called ” The Veterans ” ( considered by the police as a Hell’s Angels affiliate ) It looked like the motorcycle club was getting more action when I went by.

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  6. Richard says:
    August 11, 2012 at 8:26 PM

    I see I will not be voting……again. I am so ashamed of our fake democratic process……so ashamed……

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  7. milt w says:
    August 12, 2012 at 8:35 AM

    Another point that NDP and Conservatives are failing badly on is the issue of smart meters being forced on us. These things are causing fires that are not reported by the provincial fire marshals for some reason. They are over priced and someone is going to get killed because of BC Hydro and their money grab.
    BC Hydra has corix laborers trained for 14 day’s installing meters on a cost per meter contract without regard to human life. So far no party has offered to allow digital wired and safer meters as a safe option.

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    • AGT says:
      August 12, 2012 at 10:57 AM

      Total agreement.

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    • ∞² says:
      August 12, 2012 at 5:42 PM

      The fires thing has me puzzled. BC Hydro is claiming the fires where caused by a malfunction in the customer equipment and therefore not accepting any responsibility.

      The way I look at it, if someone comes in a touches my stuff, and mucks it up, it’s their responsibility … even more so if I didn’t want them to muck with it in the first place.

      Are the insurance companies getting on BC Hydro’s ass?

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  8. Robbie says:
    August 12, 2012 at 10:12 AM

    Back to the future is a great movie concept, but it’s a terrible political strategy. BC Cons must apply White out to the current applications for Issues Management Committee or watch the polls and public pass us by. There can be no room for even the remotest perception of bigotry or hatred in a 21st century BC Conservative party.

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    • AGT says:
      August 12, 2012 at 10:56 AM

      Well put, however, the BC Libs re-election machine will craft EASY messaging for the Premier–if she’s still around, and the deed will be done: The BC Cons will get HAMMERED, and deservedly so, for being idiots and providing Randy white ANY platform whatsoever.

      Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth and kicking it in the testicles.

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  9. James says:
    August 12, 2012 at 3:57 PM

    The destiny of the BC conservative party under the present total lack of leadership is an easy call they will fall lower than the Green party and be effectively extinct by the May election .

    John Cummings looks and acts like an old has-been with a total lack of new ideas and little understanding of what the people of BC are looking for in a government outside of his own narrow views.

    For the good of his party Cumming has to go the sooner the better. His utter ignorance of any proper political direction is plainly demonstrated by his chosen chief advisors:

    Randy White a yesterdays man who proudly acknowledges that he was banished by his own party for his extreme right wingnut views.

    Brian Peckford who left government under discontent from his own party for a bungled cucumber greenhouse operation which had an enormous cost to his taxpayers and was condemned by his minister of Agriculture Charles Power whom resigned in utter embarrassment under Peckford’s leadership calling the greenhouse project as a ”financial fiasco”.

    Why BC has to suffer with these three stooges God only knows.

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  10. ∞² says:
    August 12, 2012 at 5:57 PM

    “Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth and kicking it in the testicles”

    That’s not as easy as it sounds. You need a team to do that … or a long neck or long legs.

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  11. ∞² says:
    August 12, 2012 at 7:53 PM

    Things that you can do … instead of, like, spending 5 minutes voting.

    http://www.geekosystem.com/best-planking-pictures/#0

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  12. merv says:
    August 13, 2012 at 5:52 AM

    “We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without”. – Dalai Lama

    well, the buddhists haven’t spoken up much here :-)

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  13. therock says:
    August 15, 2012 at 9:49 PM

    I just read on CKNW that the BC Cons have lost Hamish, if that is the case they are fucked for good.

    Clearly Hamish realized he could only afford to burn so much political capital before bailing on that nuthouse.

    I bet Van Dongen is wondering WTF he just crawled into bed with….He should have gone Indep.

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  14. Not Pete says:
    August 16, 2012 at 10:40 AM

    Alex, all are welcome at a Quaker meeting, perhaps you should attend.

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  15. Bernard von Schulmann says:
    August 16, 2012 at 11:34 AM

    Just to point out that Quakers, especially in Canada, are not socially conservative. Quakers also embrace technology

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