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Originally posted by MarchHare@Apr 20 2005, 09:36 AM
He wants someone to say why the Conservatives are good and worth voting for, and "they're not the Liberals" is not an acceptable reason. For as much as those on the right accuse Liberal supporters of turning the debate around against the Conservatives, you do it just as much -- rather than prop up your own party of choice, all I ever hear is "The Liberals are stealing money from Canadians and we have to get them out of power."
So here's your chance to tell everyone why we should put the CPC in power. What about their policies do you like? How do you think they would make Canada a better place?
And I don't want to hear the words "Liberal" or "Sponsorship Scandal" once in your reasoning.
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Sadly that's where the liberal party is, however.
If the government sinks to a low like this almost any replacement is an ASSUMED step up. Not a hard point to make.
If you and your wife hire a nanny to look after your kids and then it turns out that she's looted your house, defecated on your sofa and beaten your kids, there's a really good chance that the next nanny the service sends over will be a step up. Fairly good gamble to make.
Beyond that, and without a corrupt Liberal government in place, this discussion would fall to a conceptial discussion left vs right politics. Taxation levels, spending levels, government reach and size, US relations, military spending, foreign policy.
I like the conservative view in almost all those categories, but it's pointless to even get into them when the Liberal offering is corrupt.