tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149446.post3990555723622078938..comments2023-10-10T10:34:10.843-06:00Comments on The Nexus of Assholery: A Question Well Worth Asking:Patrick Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592482865332628189noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149446.post-54317872788445424632008-12-15T14:20:00.000-07:002008-12-15T14:20:00.000-07:00The Alberta PCs and the federal Conservatives tend...The Alberta PCs and the federal Conservatives tend to honour one another's expulsions, unless there's been a <I>massive</I> change of policy in the last year.<BR/><BR/>The trouble with the Bert Brown report, Buckets, is that it doesn't <I>provide</I> the context of his comments.<BR/><BR/>It says that he wished them "every success", yet he didn't join the party.<BR/><BR/>He could have meant them "every success" with anything ranging from their separatist agenda to forcing Albertan concerns onto the national agenda -- something the Bloc Quebecois has certainly succeeded in doing.<BR/><BR/>The point is this: the three examples of western separatists associating with the Conservative party that you pointed to as smoking guns are all highly dubious.Patrick Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04592482865332628189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149446.post-81454273830158360352008-12-15T00:14:00.000-07:002008-12-15T00:14:00.000-07:00Hi Nex. Good post; this is presumably an issue th...Hi Nex. Good post; this is presumably an issue that will continue to percolate. Anyway, as for Crutcher's status in the Conservatives, it's important to remember that he was kicked out of the <I>provincial</I> Progressive Conservative party over the Chandler candidacy, not the federal Conservative Party of Canada (CPC). Most provincial Tories are federal Tories, too. But so, too, are almost all of the Socreds, Alliance-types, Wildrosers. Crutcher was a provincial Tory for only a very short time, even though he was (I assume) a Reform/Alliance/CPC all along. Having trouble with the provincial party doesn't necessarily imply anything about his federal proclivities.<BR/><BR/>Jane. He is reported to have said that he 'wished them every success' -- perhaps I've misunderstood the context. Thanks for pointing that out.bucketshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14335699928912269666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149446.post-68923085057339200442008-12-14T21:23:00.000-07:002008-12-14T21:23:00.000-07:00Connecting Bert Brown to the new batch of separati...Connecting Bert Brown to the new batch of separatists that are spawning is quite a stretch.... He did not "address" the founding meeting of the Alberta Independence Party; he merely attended and that was over seven years ago, in 2001 !!! <BR/><BR/>Additionally, Crutcher, WBTA et al had absolutely nothing to do with the now defunct AIP.Jane Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11815049977368737707noreply@blogger.com