Those that voted Liberal in the fall ...

[Bingo]

and comments ...

and please don't answer if you didn't vote Liberal in the past election ... you'll skew the results.

There is a NULL option

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Might I suggest you add a "I'll vote Green in protest" button for those who think that voting for a party that has 19yr old university students for candidates is a better idea than actually deciding which party's values best suit their own. Cause lord knows we should be able to vote for a party who beleives the exact same thing as us on every issue.

Just stirring the pot. I don't like hippies.

[Bingo]

I can't see the results ... are there any or did I forgoe seeing them by a NULL vote?

[MolsonInBothHands]

Originally posted by Bingo@Apr 8 2005, 02:30 PM
I can't see the results ... are there any or did I forgoe seeing them by a NULL vote?

I did the null vote thing, and am now seeing results.

[Winsor_Pilates]

Originally posted by Bring_Back_Shantz@Apr 8 2005, 02:29 PM
Might I suggest you add a "I'll vote Green in protest" button for those who think that voting for a party that has 19yr old university students for candidates is a better idea than actually deciding which party's values best suit their own.

Perhaps there are people whos values are best suited by the green party. Just cause u don't like hippies, doesn't meen that no one else does, and a 19 year old university student is probably more aware of politics than most of the older population.

P.S. The green party aren't hippies anyway. They're actually fairly conservative from the financial perspective and get lower rankings on their environmental policies than the NDPs.

[Savvy27]

As of right now I would still vote Liberal. There was a lot of talk during the last election about the sponsorship scandal but that didn't really deter me. Basically I agree with their policies and aside from this scandal they have kept balanced budgets and avoided a two-tiered health system which I believe is an integral part of our society.

The conservatives have kept themselves from being a decent option for me because they have kept Steven Harper as their leader. I would rather have that muppet Jack Layton in office than Harper.

Altogether my biggest issue with the conservatives is that they still refuse to actually give anyone a sense of what they are planning. Last election they had that stellar plan of cutting taxes and raising spending on the military and so far I haven't heard any ideas from them. There is always a chance that I would switch my vote but it would have to be because of a strong campaign, not the adscam vs. gay marriage election that I see coming.

(I'm sorry but I have already tainted your poll Bingo. I didn't end up voting Liberal in the last federal election. I did in the Provincial one... I voted Green because I didn't like Julia Turnbull. If the candidate was any good at all though my vote would have been for the Liberal.)

[Flames Draft Watcher]

Originally posted by Bring_Back_Shantz@Apr 8 2005, 09:29 PM
Might I suggest you add a "I'll vote Green in protest" button for those who think that voting for a party that has 19yr old university students for candidates is a better idea than actually deciding which party's values best suit their own. Cause lord knows we should be able to vote for a party who beleives the exact same thing as us on every issue.

Just stirring the pot. I don't like hippies.

What the hell are you talking about?

I know I (and everybody I've talked to that has voted Green) has voted them because their platform DOES happen to be closest to their own values.

Yeah, you are stirring the pot. You're BSing. You're generalizing, you're making stuff up. Not to mention coming across as extremely condescending and arrogant.

I hate know-it-alls.

[Tron_fdc]

Originally posted by Bring_Back_Shantz@Apr 8 2005, 09:29 PM
Might I suggest you add a "I'll vote Green in protest" button for those who think that voting for a party that has 19yr old university students for candidates is a better idea than actually deciding which party's values best suit their own. Cause lord knows we should be able to vote for a party who beleives the exact same thing as us on every issue.

Just stirring the pot. I don't like hippies.

hmmmm

maybe you should read the platform before making an assumption that people who voted green are

a: Hippies
b: supporting 19 yr old candidates.

I read it the last election and a lot of the values within it are actually pretty close to how I feel. Especially on foreign policy and proportional representation. Environment is a focus, of course, but what's so wrong with that? Should I lather myself in paculli oil and smoke weed while playing the bongos for agreeing with their policy? No, it's just something that is important to me and should be as important as fiscal policy IMO.

http://www.greenparty.ca/platform200...hemes.php?p=39

Do I think that they will ever form a government? Not really. My hope is they carry enough of a voice in parliament that the government adopts some of the popular policies. Much the same way the Liberals adopted many of the PC or Reform economic policies.

[MarchHare]

I'll be voting for the Liberals, but holding my nose. I'm not pleased about the Gun Registry or the Sponsorship Scandal, but I'll take both of those over either the right-wing social policies the Conservatives would give us or the irresponsible free-spending that would result from an NDP government.

As I said in the other thread, I would vote for the PC party if they still existed, but I won't be voting for Harper's Conservatives.

[Agamemnon]

Originally posted by Winsor_Pilates@Apr 8 2005, 09:47 PM
P.S. The green party aren't hippies anyway. They're actually fairly conservative from the financial perspective and get lower rankings on their environmental policies than the NDPs.

Where are these rankings? Who did them?

[Mike F]

As I posted in the other thread:

Liberals - holding my nose. A vote for the party policies, not the individuals

They're the only party that can keep the Conservatives out of office, or at least hold them to a minority. And you can't deny the success they had turning the country around after Mulroney, bringing all of Canada's debt back into Canadian hands, paying down a substantial portion of it, keeping the economy on track despite a global slowdown that helped knock the US into a huge hole, etc. Plus they are committed to social policies that I favor: protection of free choice and anti-discrimination.

Hopefully this ugly scandal is enough to knock the rats out of the attic.

Edit: As for my Green=Nader comment, I followed up in the other thread

[kermitology]

Liberals again.. only because Rob Anders is more of a ###### than the entire Liberal party combined..

[pope04]

Originally posted by kermitology@Apr 9 2005, 12:38 AM
....Rob Anders is more of a ###### than the entire Liberal party combined..

Are you referring to the Mandela citizenship thing?

[Rejean31]

I cannot believe after all that has come to light that almost half of you who voted Liberal would do so again. People must just love to throw their hard earned dollars away. So be it, but why throw it in the direction of a bunch of crooks?

[nieuwy-89]

If this were any other country the people would be marching in the streets demanding the resignation of the government crooks. What the hell is the matter with us? Has our northern climate turned us into a nation of masochists?

kermitology - you won't vote conservative because of one member's stupid comments on an absolutely irrelevant topic, yet you'll continue to support a liberal party hell bent on using taxpayer dollars to maintain one-party rule in Canada. I will NEVER understand this. In my opinion everyone who voted Liberal in the last election, and plans to do so again, should be ASHAMED.

[metallicat]

This is sad.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally posted by pope04+Apr 9 2005, 01:42 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (pope04 @ Apr 9 2005, 01:42 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-kermitology@Apr 9 2005, 12:38 AM
....Rob Anders is more of a ###### than the entire Liberal party combined..

Are you referring to the Mandela citizenship thing? [/b][/quote]
I went to school with this Jackass. There is no way i'm voting conservative with him as my MP. Funny, i've moved twice in the past 3 years and i'm still in his riding.

Robandersisauselessmofo.com

[calgaryred]

I hate the conversatives, I hate the NDP and I hate the liberals so I voted for the lesser of the three evils and went Green. I would vote the same way again.

[Sammie]

Originally posted by Rejean31@Apr 8 2005, 09:56 PM
I cannot believe after all that has come to light that almost half of you who voted Liberal would do so again. People must just love to throw their hard earned dollars away. So be it, but why throw it in the direction of a bunch of crooks?

Perhaps they're hoping to get in line for some of that free taxpayers money the Liberals are spreading around to their compliant friends.

[Sammie]

Originally posted by calgaryred@Apr 8 2005, 11:29 PM
I hate the conversatives, I hate the NDP and I hate the liberals so I voted for the lesser of the three evils and went Green. I would vote the same way again.

At least you voted. That's more than I can say for the almost 50% who were too lazy to bother making the effort to put a little "X" on a small piece of paper.