Gurggle..gurggle...sound of the Liberals drowning!

[Cranky]

Ahhh....Prince Martin looks like he is not going to live on the political Promised Land he so blindly lusts for!

What exactly was he thinking when he called the election? That people are going to forget what they did with our money? Did he actually think that we are going to foret the Liberals playing Three Cup Monte with OUR $100,000,000?

Did he think we were going to forget the decimation of the armed forces for the betterment of a golf course?

Did he really think that Canadians will forget that he was the parrot sitting on the shoulder of Mr. IAmTheLittleGuyFromShawRogers? Did he think that we were going to buy that little game they played between them so Martin can claim that he was not part of the “old” team?

And what does the Prince-wannabe-King do as soon as he is down in the polls? He promises to SPEND more money! Day care anybody? What does it cost? WHO CARES, it will buy him more votes!

Of course he has that Ontario Liberal, Mr. Donald McLiar to give him advice on how to hold taxes down. Mr. McLiar promised “no tax increase” and the only thing he HASN”T increased taxes on is the air we breath…..yet.

Enough is Enough! Time for change!


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[Montrealer]

It looks like all the parties are throwing money around, not just the Liberals.

That being said, I have no clue to vote for in my riding of Saint-Bruno-Saint-Hubert.

Liberals - I've voted for them since I could vote ('97 and 2000); both times the BQ took my riding anyway. Now I'm thinking about changing. Paul Martin seems like an ivory tower figure. Sponsorship scandal hurts - how could the Finance Minister not know about money flowing into the pockets of party friends? If he did - he's corrupt. If he didn't - he's incompetent? He did stop this country from sinking into unescapable debt - but the cuts he had to make could have been made in other, less important areas (Health? Ugh)

Bloc Quebecois - Never will I vote for a party that has seperation as it's penultimate goal. Never. Gilles Duceppe seems like a snake oil salesman (Vote for us as a protest! It doesn't mean you're soverignist! But if we do really well in the election, it's a great victory for the soverignists!)

Conservatives - Not crazy about non-progressive tax rates. Not crazy about greater provincial powers (this is the most decentralized nation on the planet already). No chance in my riding. Stephen Harper seems like a pretty decent person, but he needs to rein in his MPs better from saying whatever is on their mind. Needs to assure country he won't turn Canada right-wing, as this is great fear of most Easterners.

NDP - I was leaning their way. Not crazy about scrapping Clarity Act. Not at all. Not crazy about inheritence tax. No chance in my riding. Jack Layton gets points in my book for being so honest, even if what he's saying isn't "correct".

Green - No chance in my riding. Might be of interest in future but no interest in supporting a fifth-tier party in this election.

I'm loving this election - a political junkie always loves minority government possibilities. But in my own riding I'm thoroughly unsure who to vote for. I know the debates will make my mind up. Being bilingual is advantageous - the debates often have a much different tone in French than in English.

[Habs_fan_in_LA]

Montrealer said:

It looks like all the parties are throwing money around, not just the Liberals.

That being said, I have no clue to vote for in my riding of Saint-Bruno-Saint-Hubert.

Liberals - I've voted for them since I could vote ('97 and 2000); both times the BQ took my riding anyway. Now I'm thinking about changing. Paul Martin seems like an ivory tower figure. Sponsorship scandal hurts - how could the Finance Minister not know about money flowing into the pockets of party friends? If he did - he's corrupt. If he didn't - he's incompetent? He did stop this country from sinking into unescapable debt - but the cuts he had to make could have been made in other, less important areas (Health? Ugh)

Bloc Quebecois - Never will I vote for a party that has seperation as it's penultimate goal. Never. Gilles Duceppe seems like a snake oil salesman (Vote for us as a protest! It doesn't mean you're soverignist! But if we do really well in the election, it's a great victory for the soverignists!)

Conservatives - Not crazy about non-progressive tax rates. Not crazy about greater provincial powers (this is the most decentralized nation on the planet already). No chance in my riding. Stephen Harper seems like a pretty decent person, but he needs to rein in his MPs better from saying whatever is on their mind. Needs to assure country he won't turn Canada right-wing, as this is great fear of most Easterners.

NDP - I was leaning their way. Not crazy about scrapping Clarity Act. Not at all. Not crazy about inheritence tax. No chance in my riding. Jack Layton gets points in my book for being so honest, even if what he's saying isn't "correct".

Green - No chance in my riding. Might be of interest in future but no interest in supporting a fifth-tier party in this election.

I'm loving this election - a political junkie always loves minority government possibilities. But in my own riding I'm thoroughly unsure who to vote for. I know the debates will make my mind up. Being bilingual is advantageous - the debates often have a much different tone in French than in English.

I don't miss voting in Canadian elections for all the reasons you mentioned.
I like the Conservatives, but they sure make themselves hard to like. No wonder they've been tossed out so hard they may never recover.
Liberals are the default. They haven't pissed everybody off and they are the only voice of reason.
Separation is not an option for so many. It negates any good the Bloc party might otherwise do.
NDP are too much like communists who won't tell the truth. The end doesn't justify the means and stealing from the successful to pay the failures may make you popular with the failures, but it doesn't make sense.
Green in California means stopping development to save the Santa Barbara desert fieldmouse. It only makes sense if you need mice more than you need houses and jobs.
I don't miss the constant "English merchant fined for having sign in window" along with the daily traffic reports.
THe US has it's share of problems, many more serious and much more severe than the number of fish the indigenous people can catch for their own consumption.
Canada is very fortunate that all their problems are small ones. The rest of the world is not concerned with spending limits for the elected mayor of Lethbridge or if Gays can legally marry in St. Louis-de-ha-ha.
Have a great election and may the best man win. Man/woman if you count Kim Campbell.