CanPol: Gomery and a Looming Federal Election

[Jon Miller]

why aren't people more into NDP?

Jon Miller
(not dissing NYE or Asher at all....)

[Tassadar500]

But the question is, how many people will be scared out of voting for the Conservatives?

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
why aren't people more into NDP?

20% isn't bad...

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
are they like Asher and NYE?

or like, umm, Bush?

Jon Miller

The answers you get could be quite funny.

I'm a soft Tory. I feel we need a viable alternative to Liberals to form governments and I identify more with the Tories for fiscal policy and ideas of small government than I could with the NDP as they are presently constituted.

I used to be a fire-breathing Tory who didn't think a Liberal government ever saw a tax it didn't like and a defecit they couldn't top. Then the centre left appropriated the economic argument from the right and I am less loathesome of Liberals.

Now I am fully capable of voting Liberal if the right candidate is running or if I think that the Tories themselves need a wake up call or should sit for 5 in the penalty box, like in the last provincial election.

Asher's economic side wants to be Tory. His human side is having a lot of trouble with politics last I heard. I can't say I blame him. It would be very difficult to support people who by and large seek to deny him human dignity on a fundamental issue.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Lord Nuclear
But the question is, how many people will be scared out of voting for the Conservatives?

That's the 250 million dollar question.

[KrazyHorse]

I'm starting to get excited again.

[KrazyHorse]

The problem with the conservative party is that they're half composed of reasonable people (the NYE branch) and half composed of redneck Western fire-eaters who hate Central Canada and all it stands for, who hate social justice and who hate the fact that we're not the US (the BK branch).

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
I'm starting to get excited again.

No doubt. It is times like these where the NDP could stage a break out.

[KrazyHorse]

This is true multiparty democracy, BTW...

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
The problem with the conservative party is that they're half composed of reasonable people (the NYE branch) and half composed of redneck Western fire-eaters who hate Central Canada and all it stands for, who hate social justice and who hate the fact that we're not the US (the BK branch).

I'm in the center of those two.

[Ben Kenobi]

who hate social justice

One correction, who believe social justice must also include unborn children.

[KrazyHorse]

I'm in the center of those two.

You're half reasonable and half idiot?

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
The problem with the conservative party is that they're half composed of reasonable people (the NYE branch) and half composed of redneck Western fire-eaters who hate Central Canada and all it stands for, who hate social justice and who hate the fact that we're not the US (the BK branch).

The problem with that analysis is that the Conservatives field candidates from Winnipeg and going East who simply are overlooked for the most part. Do Quebec Tories hate Central Canada?

You want Robert Stanfield's Party? Elect Eastern Tories. Four or five from Quebec would do wonders.

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse

I'm in the center of those two.

You're half reasonable and half idiot?

Evidently.

[Ben Kenobi]

You're half reasonable and half idiot?

That's sure to placate NYE.