On Scheer's Resignation

It's of little or no surprise to those sharpies who observe politics Andrew Scheer kicked the conservative bucket and resigned.

Fat, drunk and stupid isn't a way to go through life Dean Wormer barked at Flounder. In some twisted variation, one can interpret this in a political context to mean not sticking to your principles and pandering to polls isn't a way to win elections in this day and age. 

Scheer is a red tory. Sure he has some social conservative values but he wasn't prepared to stand by them as conservative leader in a time people are starving for real conservative values. It's what I think anyway.

His last move to appoint a Liberal as Deputy Chief (I don't care she came to the conservative party. How can you be a Trudeau liberal and jump to the conservatives and expect voters to think or believe you have principles?) was a most cynical move calculated to pander to Toronto.

I felt at the time it should seal his fate and it did as proper.

Analysts now suggest the next leader should bring the party more to the 'centre' as if it was 'far right'. If anything, the set up at the moment in Canada is three center-left parties (with the the Liberals embracing ideological narratives under Trudeau) and one centre party that claimed to be conservative. You rarely hear such analysts in academia say, the 'liberals should move to the centre' despite their obvious left-wing bent.

As for the crop of candidates expected to take over, none are true conservatives. They're RINOS. Red Tories. Which makes them Liberals of the early 1990s.

There is no conservative party in Canada. The only one is the newly formed People's Party. If Bernier can hold the line, it will be an important party offering an alternative for the conservative diaspora.