Politics is a blood sport.
The guys running the war rooms during an election be they Con, Dip or Lib know their stuff pretty well, as far as they are concerned you are either a net liability or a net benfit to the party.
Liabilities go under the bus ASAP.
Look at how a couple of right wing, pro lifers derailed the Wild Rose party during the last Alberta election.
At the time the Wild Rose was polling a majority sweep.
Look at how Harpo controls his caucus.
And no wonder, all it takes is a few nut-bar statments to the media from the far back benches and viola,
the hidden agenda emerges.
Chretien BTW was even more controlling of his caucus than Harper.
During Chretien's terms he punted far more MP's out of the party than Harper has to date.
Muzzling or for that matter eliminating people who can talk faster than they can think is pretty much a full time job
in all the parties backrooms.
And yet without fail they miss a few here and there.
And the media has them up on the 6 o'clock news as the lead quicker than a hen on a June bug.
The guys running the war rooms during an election be they Con, Dip or Lib know their stuff pretty well, as far as they are concerned you are either a net liability or a net benfit to the party.
Liabilities go under the bus ASAP.
Look at how a couple of right wing, pro lifers derailed the Wild Rose party during the last Alberta election.
At the time the Wild Rose was polling a majority sweep.
Look at how Harpo controls his caucus.
And no wonder, all it takes is a few nut-bar statments to the media from the far back benches and viola,
the hidden agenda emerges.
Chretien BTW was even more controlling of his caucus than Harper.
During Chretien's terms he punted far more MP's out of the party than Harper has to date.
Muzzling or for that matter eliminating people who can talk faster than they can think is pretty much a full time job
in all the parties backrooms.
And yet without fail they miss a few here and there.
And the media has them up on the 6 o'clock news as the lead quicker than a hen on a June bug.