The Election Post

Larcher said he was worried that the queer community didn’t seem worried about the election. xtra via comments at dust my broom

And they are not the only ones…

If ever there was an election which failed to excite the population - save and except Quebec artists and gay activists (not, I suspect, entirely exclusive sets) - this would be it.

Once Dion got his money and carbon credits straight he shambled off to first try to sell, then explain and then, finally, underbus the Green Shift. Smilin’Jack proudly pointed out that he was not and never had been a Liberal. Lizzy explained that while she herself was not a Liberal it might not be a bad idea to vote for them just in case. M. Duceppe kept up the solid refrain “What’s in it for Quebec” with an accompanying whine from Danny “Double Dipper” Williams who, apparently, does not like Stephen Harper.

The Press reported polls, gaffes, the effect of gaffes on polls, the assorted high crimes and misdemeanors of candidates came back to elect them (who would have though inviting a 14 year old girl to paint your erect penis would lead to the probable election of the prettiest potential member of Parliament twelve years later - karma is indeed a bitch), a pooping puffin, more polls, more gaffes, shouting matches in two languages touted as debates, a financial meltdown which underscores just how well Canada is doing and therefore dooms the sitting Prime Minister to an empathy gap - no style, no substance and certainly no leadership or vision. (It is, by the way, time for some adult in each party to take the keys to the war room away from the teens who apparently are running them. Surely someone would have figured this out after Scott Reid lost the Libs the last election.)

So, tomorrow we vote. I have little time for Stephen Harper and less for the spineless creeps in the CPC who have provided us with a couple of years of minimal change because they did not have a “majority” and did not want to frighten the dimmer voters in Ontario, Quebec and Canada’s ethnic communities. But I have far less for the green delusions of M. Dion and the crazed pandering of Smilin’ Jack (stick the man in a Hungarian Community Center and I have no doubt Hungarian would join Punjabi in the Official Language sweepstakes - loser).

Normally I would root for Lizzy because, Hell, I like loony gadflies. The problem is that she is running against one of the few mildly intelligent CPC people and Harper simply cannot afford to lose Peter Mackay.

Reluctantly I shall wander off to the polls and vote CPC in a riding which will almost certainly go NDP. And I will do that simply as a protest vote against the donkeys in both the Liberal and New Democratic Party who cannot seen to understand the basic instability of the science of global warming and the insanity of the economics of remediation.

I suppose I would like to see a CPC majority just to see if the cowards would actually implement a conservative program. Repeal s. 13 of the CHRA. Privatize the CBC. Eliminate the grants to SOW and, with luck, most of the whining artists of Quebec. Practice fiscal conservatism for real - cut actual program spending. Finally stand up and admit that the science on global warming is far from certain and the economics are simply nuts. Devolve power to the provinces. Cut off Nfld and NS’s double dipping. That sort of thing. (As if…)

But I would be ok with a minority simply so as to ensure that M. Dion’s harebrained schemes never, ever, see the light of policy day. That would be enough.

Well, that and the bankruptcy of the Liberal Party.

And on that note - for you lefties wanting to vote strategically: remember, a vote for the Liberal Party gives them $1.97 per year to avoid bankruptcy. If you vote NDP or Green there is every chance the Liberal Party will cease to exist. Think about it…a forlorn hope of beating Harper or the Liberal Party, dead and gone: your call. But it really is a once in a generation opportunity to kill the Liberals dead.

Written by jay on October 13th, 2008 with 9 comments.
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