2022 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election

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Erin O'Toole has just lost the leadership.

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https://twitter.com/JohnWilliamson_/status/1488934198849286158
MP for South Brunswick SW John Williamson is running to be interim leader.

[Libertas Vel Mors]

Erin O'Toole has just lost the leadership.

Yes!

[Logical]

Joke party. The thousand year Grit Reich is far from inevitable but the CPC are certainly doing everything in their power to make it a reality.

[Oryxslayer]

It's going to be Poillievre right? The guy who has personas that appeal to both the Reform and the Business types, while also being in strong position to benefit from anti-crazy consolidation against whoever tries from the extremes.

[toaster]

Fingers crossed Michelle Rempel runs.

[mileslunn]

With all the challenges ahead like inflation, high housing prices, pandemic still ongoing, out of control deficits and uneven recovery, the next election should be Tories to win.  But unfortunately for them, they will probably chose someone who is popular with base not general electorate thus miss another goal on an empty net.  Problem is too many in base spend too much time in echo chambers and think their hatred of Trudeau is shared by most.

I don't think most Canadians love Trudeau.  The #IStandWithTrudeau types are very much a minority just as the type who think he is a dictator and some evil incarnate are.  Both types may dominate social media but they are a minority in general population.  Most see him as a flawed individual but also are okay with him, especially if alternatives lousy. 

One thing O'Toole showed is trying to play both lanes by going right to win leadership and then moving to middle for general election doesn't work.  People like one who is consistent whether agree or disagree.  O'Toole angered base he felt he betrayed them while failed to win swing voters who didn't trust his moderation was genuine.

I think if MacKay had won, election would have been much closer, maybe won outright.  Same with Chong or Raitt in 2019.  So party can win, but problem is membership is so out of touch with reality chances are they shoot themselves in the foot again.

I think party maybe needs to experience what UK Labour did in 2019 which is lose badly with a right wing ideologue (Labour lost badly with a left wing ideologue) and that will force them to realize going too far from middle is doomed for failure.

[DC Al Fine]

Anyone want to take bets on which washed up politician from 15 years ago that the media will talk up before they inevitably don't run? AKA the Jean Charest option

What's Bernard Lord up to these days?

[Poirot]

Stephen Harper

[beesley]

Anyone want to take bets on which washed up politician from 15 years ago that the media will talk up before they inevitably don't run? AKA the Jean Charest option

What's Bernard Lord up to these days?

James Moore maybe?

[RogueBeaver]

Deltell, Ford, Kenney and Raitt all said they aren't running. Williamson and Kmiec are both running for interim.

[Cassius]

Anyone want to take bets on which washed up politician from 15 years ago that the media will talk up before they inevitably don't run? AKA the Jean Charest option

What's Bernard Lord up to these days?

I’m sure Kim Campbell would do it if someone gave her $10 and a few minutes of screen time.

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Anyone want to take bets on which washed up politician from 15 years ago that the media will talk up before they inevitably don't run? AKA the Jean Charest option

What's Bernard Lord up to these days?

I’m sure Kim Campbell would do it if someone gave her $10 and a few minutes of screen time.

It would be funny seeing the reaction by Tory MPs if she won seeing as she is now a twitter liberal who actually retweeted Gully Foyle.

[MaxQue]

Anyone want to take bets on which washed up politician from 15 years ago that the media will talk up before they inevitably don't run? AKA the Jean Charest option

What's Bernard Lord up to these days?

I’m sure Kim Campbell would do it if someone gave her $10 and a few minutes of screen time.

It would be funny seeing the reaction by Tory MPs if she won seeing as she is now a twitter liberal who actually retweeted Gully Foyle.

I mean, she twitted that she hoped an hurricane hit Mar-A-Lago.

[RogueBeaver]

Brown doesn't sound interested.

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https://twitter.com/RobertFife/status/1489034057975570435

[randomusername]

https://twitter.com/RobertFife/status/1489034057975570435

Today I learned that there's a Conservative leader in Canada named Candice Bergen. Wonder if there's a conservative Murphy Brown too.

[RogueBeaver]

https://twitter.com/davidakin/status/1489051050015404040

[King of Kensington]

Interestingly Candice Bergen's district (Portage-Lisgar, Manitoba) had the best showing for the PPC in the last election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage%E2%80%94Lisgar

[Benjamin Frank]

Interestingly Candice Bergen's district (Portage-Lisgar, Manitoba) had the best showing for the PPC in the last election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage%E2%80%94Lisgar

She married a man with the last name Hoeppner.  When she was first elected her name was Candice Hoeppner.

[Coldstream]

I hope they pick Carolyn Mulroney so Canada can have the dynastic face off America was denied in 2016.

[Independents for George Santos]

The buzz in my circles is that people want somebody with Poilievre's ideas but not his rhetoric. I also have a friend who's normally a Liberal voter but has been won over by Michelle Rempel. Frankly I have no clue how this plays out and I give it 50-50 odds that my avatar is back to Independent in a couple months. Godspeed, Murphy Brown.

[RogueBeaver]

Potential candidates: Poilievre, Lewis, MacKay, Chong, Guzzo, Brown. Charest was mentioned by one of his former ministers, believe when seen.

[Benjamin Frank]

The buzz in my circles is that people want somebody with Poilievre's ideas but not his rhetoric. I also have a friend who's normally a Liberal voter but has been won over by Michelle Rempel. Frankly I have no clue how this plays out and I give it 50-50 odds that my avatar is back to Independent in a couple months. Godspeed, Murphy Brown.

Polievre doesn't have ideas. He's a glib ignoramus.

[King of Kensington]

Pierre has the persona of a campus Conservative fixated on "owning" libs.