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Originally posted by Flame On@Apr 20 2005, 12:36 AM
What's more sickening to me is the time the official opposition (an important role in a healthy democracy) has had to get themselves together, yet they're still total losers whom I suspect will still have problems even getting a minority government in power. It was only a couple a months ago that they put to rest some areas surrounding abortion. They may not have been wasting money but they have been wasting time. Wasting it in a fight to find out whether they're more value based than just fiscally responsible traditional Cons.
The problem is they can't win either, becuase if they even mention gay marriage they're perceived (rightly) as wasting time on a relatively unimportant area, and show their social engineering agenda, but if they don't their infighting probably continues .
I can't understand why more aren't angry or baffled by them.
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This is a line of reasoning I don't get. Every poll I have seen shows the nation divided almost 50:50 on gay marriage and someting close to that on abortion. This tells me that a lot of people would support a party that has the same view as them. Your comments imply that it is not such a divisive issue.
I have never seen a poll that says 90% are in favour of gay marriage or 80% are in favour of abortion for example.
Many posts in this forum seem to imply that type of ratio, or take it as a forgone conclusion. The reality is, right or wrong, there are close to half of Canadians that don't support gay marriage or abortion.
Who knows, maybe that is what does get them elected one day?