I'm not sure why May became so incensed by McKay's betrayal of Orchard when he "promised" he wouldn't merge the Prog Con Party with the Alliance:
"He should not have broken his word to David Orchard (the pact that sealed his victory, going down in history as the last-ever leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada) and turning it over to Alliance and Stephen Harper. The Progressive Conservative Party was cannibalized by the Alliance Party. The loss of the adjective “progressive” was more than grammatical. The heart was torn out of Canadian politics. The loss of the traditional, principled Progressive Conservative counter-weight to the ethically flexible Liberals has cost this country dearly (Submitted by Elizabeth May on 6 April 2007 - 6:39pm)."
I mean what's the big deal here:
Green Leadership Debate (exchange between Chernushenko & May)
Chernushenko: I’d like you to explain why you felt it necessary to call me and Jim Harris during the last election and ask us to consider asking Green Party candidates to stand aside in ridings where our running…
May: …that is something that I would not do as Green Party leader it was in my role as an NGO and it wasn’t quite as represented before so I appreciate the chance to clear it up.
I guess that's all different when Ms. May is doing the wheeling and dealing.
Forgot to put where you get the full text of the Green leadership debate:
http://talkcanada.blogspot.com/
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That should definitely make for a fun comparison if May runs. I'd think she'd have the sense to stop trying to re-fight the last PC leadership convention if that got thrown in her place often enough...but then I'd also have expected her to have the sense not to enter into the Axis of Ego either, so I may be overestimating her.
Yes. You're over-estimating her.
You raise a good point Jurist. What's worse the Liberal machine revved up, or the NDP machine?
I am disappointed that Elizabeth May said explicitly that she would be opposed to the idea of not fielding candidates in order to stop vote-splitting to prevent a Harper government. Clearly, she was saying what she felt the Green party members wanted to hear--they, of course, fear that their party will be squeezed out of existence through such arrangements.
Although, I suppose there is an argument in saying that she didn't pull the candidate against Dion to stop a Conservative win in his riding since Dion's victory is a safe bet. May herself has expressed in an interview with Jane Taber that the move to pull the Green candidate was a symbolic gesture of support towards Dion and not really an effort to aid his personal electoral victory there.
Saskboy: Presumably the Greens have reached the calculation (which I'd tend to agree with) that the Libs have the louder and less conscience-constrained noise machine, given the inevitable result that the Red Green deal would pit the two against each other. Of course, it's worth wondering whether either May or Dion is clueless enough to think that helps the cause of stopping Harper, or whether they're simply agreeing to try to squeeze out the NDP even if it means a Harper majority.
Adam: Which sounds to me like little more than a further declaration of the Greens' own irrelevance if their contribution to their supposed crusade to stop Harper is merely symbolic.
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