The pathetic political performance of Kevin Taft's Liberals has continued unabated over the course of the summer. You may recall that the inept Mr. Taft was quoted in this blog entry back on April 17, 2006. At that time he was boasting about how he was going out on a province-wide tour to "promote his party's vision for Alberta." That vision was evidently contained in a policy document entitled "Alberta Horizons".
The summer is now over. How did the Alberta Liberals make out in their latest attempt at making themselves relevant to Albertans? Well, when one searches Google News, the phrase "Alberta Horizons" does not even appear anywhere in the media.
Not good.
Furthermore, according to this story in the Calgary Herald, the Taft Liberals would do even worse against a Tory party lead by Jim Dinning or Lyle Oberg (15% support) than they would against Ralph Klein (measured at 18% support in March):
When respondents were asked which political party they would most likely vote for, 46 per cent said they would back a Dinning Conservative party, compared with 15 per cent for Kevin Taft's Liberals and eight per cent for Brian Mason's NDP.
The Green party and Paul Hinman's Alberta Alliance rounded out the mainstream parties with five per cent each.
Oberg, meanwhile, would nab 42 per cent of public support as Tory leader, with the remaining parties receiving backing similar to that if Dinning were party chief.
The Leger poll was conducted throughout Alberta, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points, 19 times out of 20 ...
Kevin Taft has been railing against the Progressive Conservatives since at least 1997, when he published his razor-thin book "Shredding the Public Interest". The Alberta Liberals are now polling at about half the level of support they received less than 2 years ago in the Alberta provincial election.
Grab a brain Alberta Liberals.
How long are you going to let this ineffective demagogue cling to power? Isn't it time for Kevin Taft to get "Chretiened"?
