None of the above?

Today is the day to vote for me and my fellow Canadians and the choice is – more so than usually – a decidedly unpleasant one.

I don’t care for casting my lot in with a rabble of happy spenders who went back on the few promises I valued.  Like fixed election dates for one.

But in the end, it comes down to what the options are and they are not pretty.

The Liberals, who are the only other party with a hope in hell of forming a government, would be an unmitigated disaster.  Plagued by pathological in-fighting, constant corruption and a hopeless and unintelligible leader, they would squander every last vestige of productivity in government. 

The evidence of this is plain for all to see.  In their lust for more power to govern, they grasp at dubious coalition agreements with the far-left nutbars who are continually abandoned by the populace at the voting booth.  They claim that a coalition will lend to getting more done in parliament but when the Conservatives stand to own roughly half of the seats, what it really leads to is a deadlock.  The Liberals are a party of don’t people -- they don’t want this and don’t want that.  Always against something.  There is very little evidence they want anything more than to continue to deadlock parliament on any and every measure that comes in unless it carries the Liberal brand.

Let’s look at it this way…if they really wanted to get things done in parliament, why not push for a coalition with the largest seat holder?  Why not pair up with the Conservatives, form a super-majority and guarantee a pass to anything the 2 of them can agree on?

Two reasons:  The Liberal party has swung so far to the left, they have far more in common with the 9/11 truthers and anti-Semites in the Greens and the NDP, than they ever will with the economists and common sense folk in the Conservatives.  As well, in a fit of common petulance, deadlock is the goal.  For as long as a Conservative holds the keys to 24 Sussex, the Liberals will stomp and kick and fight on every measure in the hope of preventing the Conservatives from accomplishing anything worthwhile.  After all, the Liberals aren’t interested in anything that they cannot paste their banner over.  Aggrandizement of the party always takes precedence over what is good for the country.

That cannot be allowed to stand as the primary principal in government.

Tonight I will be holding my nose and casting my vote for the one party that still stands a chance of being productive and useful.

And then I will pray that they earn it.

Comments

[Texas Canuck]

Amen sister, although I must admit it is a much clearer choice for me. I don't think any party can deliver all it's promises, but there was one that did do a vast majority of them and I see it every day when they ring in the GST on my purchase. My ideal government wouldn't be cow-towing to Quebec so by that very definition, it could never be elected.

p.s. missed your Sunday pin-up :-(

[Rob C]

At least you are smart enough to pick the lesser of the two evils. I am not happy with everything Harper has done (kissing quebec a$$) but given what he is up against he is doing OK . As for quebec I want a vote on if the ROC wants these leaches to remain in confederation.

[pete in Midland]

politics in Canada has always ... well at least post-Trudeau ... been an unsavory thing. Most times, the result was decided long before the polls closed in the west. I have enough to do with keeping up with the politics south of the border now, and have therefore fallen way behind in what's happening north of the border ... unless you or Richard post about it.
Speaking to my brother in Alberta this morning, little has changed ... he managed to vote wven though he wasn't registered "anywhere" ... his address was a mailbox due to being out of the contry trucking much of the time. So, it took a whole 10 minutes for them to produce and fiull out paperwork and let him vote. (bit that is a LITTLE better than ACORN and their shenanigans down here).

My first day back on the 'net in two weeks ... spent over a week flat on my back in the hospital from a motorcycle accident ... back to work today althought the doc said 6-8 weeks off work. Someone has to pay taxes to keep all the welfare bums in beer!

[Mikey]

The least of the evils is the only choice this time around. As I see it, those amount to unsavoury and suicidal, so unsavoury it is.

Pete, I hope your recovery is swift, painless and thorough!