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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
That's certainly possible. However, as a "moderate liberal" myself, I can tell you that Harper has done a very good job of alienating moderates. I doubt he'd pick up too many votes from a merger of this kind.
In all honesty, it's impossible to gauge the political impact of something like this until it happens. It actually might as easily be true that a move like this is the only thing that will prevent a conservative majority.
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Maybe, but nothing Jack has said has ever mattered, if that ever changed, and a reality started to form around the way he thinks, many would learn to gain an appreciation for Harper.
I would say Im not a conservative follower either ... somewhere between a conservative and liberal, however I know that the cons and libs are legit options for the country, their personalities suck, which unfortunately is important to voters. But their parties are credible. Jack and the greens and others are just populists. They say nice stuff, and they rally up those that are pissed about something that has caught their intention, but they aren't legitimate leaders in legitimate parties. Jack will send people running the other way much faster than Harper ever could due to the fact that his party has credibility.