[Cool Blue]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story.....ament.html

Cherry also met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper for an informal meeting. He said Harper asked him to run in the next election.

"You know what I told him? I'm too great on television, I can't."

[FF_Canuck]

That's a shame. Under all the bluster there's a good mind and a lot of heart. Plus, he might be able to win a seat somewhere in the GTA...

[Mac]

Can you believe some no-class clowns actually booed Don Cherry when he came into the House of Commons? Cherry was a successful coach before he morphed himself into an entertainer and he's a prominent and proud Canadian. Whether you like him or disagree with him, booing is simply tacky. How disrespectful!!

-Mac

[biggie]

[kwlafayette]

It is good that he did not accept the offer. Obviously, a former AHL coach of the year, former NHL coach of the year, would have prime ministerial ambitions. It would have been like letting a smarter, more politically savvy Belinda Stronach type into the party!

Next, we should ask the weatherman from Red Deer.

[biggie]

Yeah, and he already knows tie domi...

:D

[cosmostein]

Perhaps I am a quantity over quality type of Tory,
And I want a majority, and Cherry gives us a chance in Kingston and the Islands.

This is a riding that we have lost by

12,318 in 2006
15,962 in 2004

Anytime we can make any sort of in road into a VERY liberal riding, especially in Ontario I think it should at least be entertained.

On a side note,
What I find interesting is that Peter Milliken recieved
28,548 in 2006
28,544 in 2004
Its one of those fun election facts, a four more votes in 2006,

Wacky.

[biggie]

I agree - Don cherry would be an almost guaranteed in in most of Ontario... I mean he's the kind of guy many Canadians take very seriously and have a great deal of respect for (not myself personally).

His very presence in the party could even draw many undecided voters (as sad as that is). Harper having asked him may well have made several people take a double-take at the CPC even..

[Montgomery]

As I'm from Kingston, I can put forward a couple words on this...

Peter Milliken has held the seat since 1988 - but he's retiring and letting someone else run in the next election. Kingston elects MPs based on the personality, and as the Conservatives have (regretfully) put forward rather poor candidates in recent years (with the exception of Flora MacDonald), the Liberals have held the riding. But the NDP presence is a joke, Liberal votes have been declining (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.....on_results), and a real personality could turn it around. Don Cherry could plausibly take the seat - if only he'd run.

Kingston is an island of Liberal red in a sea of Conservative blue (literally, every surrounding seat is Conservative). Don Cherry could deliver that seat to the Conservatives for the first time since the 80's, and if he so chose, I would (as a member of the riding association) vote for him as the candidate.

[Blue Meanie]

I'm not convinced that Grapes was asked to run. I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't just having the MSM on for a laugh. That said, I think he would be as entitled to run as any other citizen and certainly would be no worse a candidate than some of the other idiots running for office in other parties. I could vote for him, but maybe more to piss off those that don't like him. :wink:
Glenn

[biggie]

[Ruth]

Any political party with Don Cherry on its team would crush its opponents. Not only that, but there would be a sudden surge of interest in Canadian politics. We'd have the highest voter turnout in years.

--Ruth

[palomino_pony]

[Mac]

[biggie]