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Originally Posted by starseed
You are fooling yourself if you think that the majority of the CPC doesd not hold the same convictions as the majority of the GOP. Harper himself wanted Canada to be more right wing than the USA, and wanted us to eliminate socialized medicine. He has muzzled his caucas since day one, so you only rarely see them make the same dumb comments as their counterparts in the US. (I am not saying only conservatives make dumb comments)
The only reason the CPC does not have the same policies as the GOP, is that their support would go down, and the rest of the country would not tolerate them as the leaders. The merger with the PC party was just a take over, they said that they would only focus on certain non-socially conservative priorities, but Joe Clark knew what that really meant.
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Oh my god!! You actually believe this don't you?
I know a lot of us get carried away when we criticize political parties (particularly when they are parties that they don't support and they tend to "exagerate" their faults in order to make a point or to paint "their party" in a better light).... but deep down I'm sure most of us realize that our political parties are mostly centrist.
You however, paint the Conservative Party of Canada as the Canadian reincarnation of US bible belt politics. All I can say is wow. Somebody from the CPC sure must have pissed in your cereal, in order to give you such a slanted and extremely biased opinion of them.
I think you're wrong.... and I would suggest that most CalPuck members would probably disagree with your predjudiced view.
Edit: After reading some of your previous posts, I now know where you are coming from. You feel that the CPC is anti-gay (ie. Jason Kenedy coming out against gay marriage and other stuff you feel that the CPC does to discriminate against you), thus the Conservative Party of Canada is your enemy.