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Originally Posted by Rerun
He also appears to be the most right wing Liberal party leader in decades.
I wonder how this will translate into votes?
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I'll tell you how it'll translate into votes. I'm a guy that has voted Reform/CA/Con since I was 18. But I now have an alternative.
I consider myself middle left on social issues and middle right on fiscal issues. The Liberals have historically been the closest thing to that, but their blind hatred of all things America turned me off. Chretien. He was the original reason I wouldn't vote Liberal, and it snowballed from there. Now I'm a staunch Conservative voter, even though I'm not even close to 100% on side with their policies.
The appointment of Ignatieff means that I can finally sit down and consider which party I'm going to vote for based on their policies instead of their leaders. In other words, I no longer hate one of them so much that I'll vote for the other regardless of policy. Though I'm sure that for every person like me who has now warmed up to the Libs a bit, there is a person that still hates the Cons for having Harper as the leader.
As for the earlier comments about Ignatieff's time spent outside of Canada, I can't believe that that would ever be brought up as a knock against a potential Prime Minister. Especially since all this time he spent "away from Canada" was spent in Britain and the US. How is that a bad thing? The guy has close, personal experience with what would be his two most important allies and partners in economy and military. Sounds like a big plus to me.
Ps, sorry if this has already been said. I quoted the post and replied without reading the 30+ posts inbetween.