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05/31/2003 Archived Entry: "Guess Who's Playing The Kingmaker?"

GUESS WHO'S PLAYING THE KINGMAKER?: Well, it's 6:30 pm here in Toronto (no, I'm not typing from the Progressive Conservative Party convention floor) and Brison has just thrown his support over to the best candidate, Jim Prentice. Brison and Prentice combined can't beat MacKay, but they can vault over perennial second-place finisher David Orchard. That means Orchard going to be dropped off the next ballot and with a two-person race between Prentice and MacKay, he gets to decide who he wants to swing his support over to. Orchard's been described as "radioactive" and Peter Van Loan, former PC Party President, has just compared Orchard's supporters to the Jonestown Cult, so fanatic they seem to him. It's kind of hard to think of an American analog, but I think it'd be like Michael Bloomberg (the leftist who happens to have a membership card in a conservative party) getting to choose between George W. Bush (the Establishment Candidate) and John McCain (the Insurgent Candidate) at a Republican convention.