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Old 12-01-2008, 06:18 PM   #728
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Originally Posted by flylock shox View Post
I'm not sure it would be as bad as many people think. I imagine that's the prevailing opinion in blue-soaked Alberta, but don't forget that the Conservatives have not yet earned the trust of the rest of the country: how else to you explain their failure to earn a majority when their main opposition was so clearly floundering?

A lot of people will still vote for the Liberals because (1) Harper's attack on political financing is exactly the type of neo-con assault on democracy that they always worried he'd carry into effect with a majority, and Harper just confirmed their fears, and (2) as I stated before, there is the potential here for the re-emergence of the Liberals under a new leader, with a new "willing to stand up to Harper" image.

Of course, on the other hand, you could be right.

Asking a political party to raise their own funds instead of being propped up by taxpayer doallars...is now a "neo-con" assualt on democracy?

Good grief.

I guess that means that Obama is a "neo-con" then? Right?

No wonder liberal thinking has me in a constant state of bewilderment.
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