These threads are comical. Its a bunch of guys who would never vote Liberal and have no intention of ever doing so explaining why there is only one true party that they can vote for. None of them are going to vote NDP or Green. They won't vote Liberal based on policies from decades ago, or comments from decades ago and as a result they will only vote for the CPC.
It makes no difference to them that the CPC has policies stated for things like cap and trade. It matters not that they are no more fiscally conservative than anyone else despite their proclamations otherwise. The voters here don't really care whether their policies recently like the F35 debacle, omnibus crime bill or cutting the GST are simply bad policies. They don't mind that they hand out tax credits like candy on halloween despite them obvious examples of terrible distribution methods.
No, the voters care about just a few other far more important things:
1. The word "Liberal". Nothing says "let me judge a book by its cover" more than voting against a good candidate because they're a Liberal.
2. "The west wants in". Well bad news for western alienation types; the west has been in for a number of years now and the policies aren't really any different. We don't have any great say that we were lacking a few years back. It sounds like a great rallying cry, but the "west" only includes Alberta in this line of thought anyway. Voters all around us have consistently elected NDP and Liberal MPs for decades.
3. The Liberals are too "tax and spendy": Well again, bad news. The reality is that all of the spending and deficit problems we see today are a result of the Conservative policies of the past decade. They have no relation to the prior Liberal government who in fact had balanced the budget and were running a much tighter ship than what we see today. From a pure fiscal standpoint this government has been the highest spending in Canadian history and that's on an inflation adjusted basis.
4. The Liberals lie and cheat. This is probably my favorite or all of them. The facts just tell the other half of the story. The CPC has been under investigation a number of times from the "robo-call scandal" to the "in and out scheme". There have been questions of ethics with Maxime Bernier, Helena Guergis and the list goes on. Doe I even need to mention such luminaries and Brian Mulroney and his good buddy Mr. Karlheinz Schreiber? The fact that people just overlook some of these issues of toss out the "well the Liberals are worse because..." line (as if that is any possibly justification!) is simply amazing. Why should us citizens accept that because party cut corners and acted unethically in the past that their opponent should now have carte-blanche to act in a similar manner?
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