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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
You're right. I can't really say they are incompetent because neither party even tries to win a seat here. Placeholder candidates and minimal spending. Frankly, I find the inability to defeat Anders in an election to be a fault of the competing parties, not a fault of the electorate. It says a lot when you can't convince anyone that your candidate can't do a better job than Anders.
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The problem is, anyone with a pulse could do a better job than Anders, and every voter in the riding knows it. Yet the vote always goes to the worst MP in Canada. People vote for the party in Calgary West and nothing more, and history has proven that. You could put a Liberal superstar, if there is such a thing, in that riding and throw all sorts of money at it and people would still put the check mark beside the one who has "conservative" beside their name. Not everyone, obviously, but the vast majority.
My dilemma now is, as a slightly left of centre Calgary West voter who feels that we could get better governance from a tree, is that I can either buy myself a CPC membership and help nominate someone capable of the job (since the riding will always vote CPC anyway, even when they have every reason not to), or let him remain so he can continue to embarrass the party through his routine antics. I'll wait to see what the riding boundaries and the nominations are like for the next election first, but I may find myself in the odd position of being a card-carrying conservative who finds the Conservative Party of Canada to be way too conservative.
I am surprised that anyone actually votes for him, even staunch conservatives. Voting against him would be the best thing that a true conservative could do as it would send a clear message to the party and the riding would end up with better representation - albeit after a term under another party.