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Originally Posted by Delgar
I agree with this statement. Harper isn't exactly a 'leader of men', but he certainly holds conservative views. Look at his history before politics to confirm that.
If anything, he's suppressed his personal views in an effort to appeal to the center-right while the Tories do the minority government dance to hold power.
I also agree with the "mannequin in a sweater" comment. That's pretty accurate, and I take it to be more of an attack of his public persona than his political views.
And I prefer him over Ignatieff as PM wholeheartedly. Unfortunately I live in Rob Anders' riding, so I'll be voting for some fringe candidate instead.
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You know that Rob Anders is about as far from influence as any member of the government, right? He has been an MP for 11 years and has risen to the lofty heights of being the Chair of the Veterans Affairs Committee.
He is a bum in a seat who votes with the government on command. He is my MP (being a Bownesian, obviously) and while I know he was a grandstanding idiot is (has he done anything stupid in the last 6 or 7 years?), I have long since accepted the idea that we don't really have a representative democracy in the local sense but instead vote for leaders and party platforms first and direct representatives a distant second.
Though I have voted against him in the past (and have voted against his nomination several times), I made my peace with the idea that a vote for Anders is money towards the party whose platform I least disagreed with.