06-11-2004, 08:16 AM
Well, it's not terribly hard for me. I could vote for the parties I would traditionally support (NDP, possibly Green), but in my case I'd rather vote against giving the conservatives one of two scant Liberal ridings in Alberta.
I'm nowhere near as irritated as most people seem to be about the assorted corruption scandals. I think those are just the cost of doing business with certain elements in Quebec, and they were certainly more of a Chretien thing than a Martin thing. But I've never liked Paul Martin particularly much. Combine Catholic with Corporate and you don't get a mix I'm much fond of. Give me back the bumbling, loveable Iron Jean any day. ;)
I wouldn't vote Tory if it was raining unicorns, so they're out. Next time our neighbours to the south start talking up another war, I want someone who will waffle, waver and stall for time, like a good Canadian, rathen than signing up the troops to head off to god-only-knows-where. I'm also not really buying these strangely un-conservative ideas popping up in their platform despite their absence until now. Even more money for health care than the Liberals? Corporate tax cuts being dependent on cutting corporate welfare? Suddenly not against bilingualism, abortion, or homosexuals? We'll see when the time comes. All I know is that this was not the Stephen Harper we saw as opposition leader, and it certainly isn't a whole host of high-placed MPs in the Conservative party from the old Reform/Alliance. Various public slips make this abundantly clear, if it wasn't already.
So, as much as it pains me to vote for Paul Martin's squad (I swore I wouldn't, but...), I'm chipping in my vote for Anne McLellan. She's an old friend of my dad's, and her seat is in enough danger that I'm willing to swallow my socialist pride. I'd say "the devil I know", but I'm all too familiar with too many of the leading lights of the Conservatives to call them "the devil I don't".
Jester
I'm nowhere near as irritated as most people seem to be about the assorted corruption scandals. I think those are just the cost of doing business with certain elements in Quebec, and they were certainly more of a Chretien thing than a Martin thing. But I've never liked Paul Martin particularly much. Combine Catholic with Corporate and you don't get a mix I'm much fond of. Give me back the bumbling, loveable Iron Jean any day. ;)
I wouldn't vote Tory if it was raining unicorns, so they're out. Next time our neighbours to the south start talking up another war, I want someone who will waffle, waver and stall for time, like a good Canadian, rathen than signing up the troops to head off to god-only-knows-where. I'm also not really buying these strangely un-conservative ideas popping up in their platform despite their absence until now. Even more money for health care than the Liberals? Corporate tax cuts being dependent on cutting corporate welfare? Suddenly not against bilingualism, abortion, or homosexuals? We'll see when the time comes. All I know is that this was not the Stephen Harper we saw as opposition leader, and it certainly isn't a whole host of high-placed MPs in the Conservative party from the old Reform/Alliance. Various public slips make this abundantly clear, if it wasn't already.
So, as much as it pains me to vote for Paul Martin's squad (I swore I wouldn't, but...), I'm chipping in my vote for Anne McLellan. She's an old friend of my dad's, and her seat is in enough danger that I'm willing to swallow my socialist pride. I'd say "the devil I know", but I'm all too familiar with too many of the leading lights of the Conservatives to call them "the devil I don't".
Jester