[MarchHare]

Don't agree with the policies? Fine. Don't vote for em.

Believe me, I wouldn't if I had an attractive alternative. I don't agree with the CPC's policies, and I don't trust the NDP to not p*ss all our money away. The way I see it, my options are either to hold my nose about the scandal and vote Liberal or abstain.

That's great logic. So, just so we're on the same page, pretend you own a multi-million dollar company. I come and work for you. I steal, say, 1000 dollars. Are you telling me that you would still keep my on company payroll and not fire me simply because:

a) 1000 dollars is not that much money.
b) You are too scared to hire someone else?

You attack my logic, and then you follow it up with poor logic of your own. Colour me unimpressed.

so really, it's hard to tell if they'd be corrupt or waste as much money as the Liberals. Until this is proven like it is being proven for the Liberal Party, i'm willing to take my chances elsewhere.

Never once did I suggest a potential CPC government would be corrupt or wasteful. It's their publicly stated positions on many issues that I find distasteful and unworthy of my support.

Frankly, i'm more frightened about what sorts of fraud and corruption has happened at the hands of the Liberals that we don't know about as opposed to the 'scary' CPC.

In one breath you accuse your opponents of being moronic and needlessly fearing "hidden agenda", and then you go on to complain about "hidden corruption" at the hands of the Liberals. Please.

Also, why should I trust the Conservatives when their deputy leader publicly promised not to merge with the Alliance and then did just that? They already have a history of being dishonest and they haven't even been elected yet.

I also have no idea why your kind fears the CPC so much, though I suspect it has something to do with the Liberal clap trap that comes out of the party ever so often. It really defies logic though.

Why do I loathe the CPC so much? It has absolutely nothing to do with anything at all that the Liberals have said, and everything to do with what comes from the mouths of your own party members.

"We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies."
-Stephen Harper, on the invasion of Iraq

"We support the war effort and believe we should be supporting our troops and our allies and be there with them doing everything necessary to win."
-Harper on Iraq again

"We should try to keep our mothers in the home and that's where the whole Reform platform hangs together."
-Garry Breitkreuz, Conservative MP of Yorkton-Melville

"Foreign nationals without status should not be under the protection of the Canadian charter."
-Inky Mark, Conservative MP of Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette

"Marriage is open to everybody as long as they're a man and a woman."
-Jason Kenney, Conservative MP of Calgary Southeast

"Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country."
-Stephen Harper

"There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism."
-Stephen Harper on Atlantic Canadians

"You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society."
-Harper again

"On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was much more fundamental. It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems. … I think, frankly, that everybody knew the post-war situation was probably going to be more difficult than the war itself. Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."
-Harper on Iraq again

As to the italicized part, of course there's the upside that none of our brave service members were killed for non-existant WMDs and connections to Al Qaeda.

Anyway, I could go on all night. The Conservatives have made their own bed. I don't need the Liberals to tell me why I shouldn't vote for them; they do a good enough job of that themselves.