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I think there are many people in various regions within the country who see the CPC as "the party that the Reform/Alliance turned into" instead of "the old Tory party".
I traditionally supported the PC party, thought Mulroney was great for the country and all that, however I have a difficult time supporting the CPCs. I can only think it's because of Reform/Alliance. I felt reform/alliance was not speaking to me as what I'll pigeonhole myself as a "moderate conservative" and having seen that side of what makes up the CPC it makes me pause and my support of the CPC waivers.
On the flip side I cannot support a Liberal Party with a dufus as a leader.
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I don't make it a secret that I'm a partisan card-carrying Liberal, but I'm of the "Paul Martin" wing of the party: fiscal conservative, social liberal (aka a "Blue Liberal"). Despite my party affiliation, though, in the last two elections I would have voted* for the Progressive Conservative Party if it had still existed. As you noted, the CPC is not that party; it's the Reform/Alliance Party with a new name.
* In 2006 the Liberals needed to be spanked for the Chretien scandals and spend some time in opposition as punishment; in 2008 they ran with a horrible leader and needed to lose so Dion would be forced to step down and a better leader selected in his place.