I think Steve see's this as a game at this point. The end goal is to get in and prove political strategical and tactical superiority, political ideology is secondary. At the heart of it he is a policy wonk/political strategy academic egg-head nerd and he gets off on this stuff. This is why the only real muscle of the supporting cast has had enough and bailed/resigned.
The anti marijuana stuff and the anti-Trudeau ads are absolutely nauseating but I still want the Conservatives in as a minority for my own self serving reasons (admittedly I vote largely based on what affects my family and finances directly, but in defense I also think most of the general public vote this way).
I want these guys to get their pee pee's slapped a bit. Ideally Stevie gets a minority government, gets rattled to his core by the opposition, has enough and steps down and some knight in shining armour like Peter McKay steps up to bring them back to former glory.
It's too formulaic, at this point if the Liberals had a competent leader like Mark Garneau with a half palatable platform I would have considered them right now. Instead they went with their hearts and nominated Trudeau, he would have been so much more effective in a supporting role. Instead we have the insanity of Angry Beard gaining steam. As far as direct harm/consequence impact to Canada and more important to me and my family directly, Angry Beard makes ISIS looks like a kitten. Because of this I will vote for Steve-bot.
I'm sure they've done their market research and know that because of my demographic and socioeconomic category they have my vote but what happens if I get apathetic and don't vote or if the NDP find a way last minute to whip up a fervour and get the knucklehead youths to vote...
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