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Aviator,

You are a prime example of what partisanship does to a free thinking mind.

Harper has a majority now. Where is all this sweet conservative goodness we've been promised for decades? AND, thanks to PMSH's embarrassing Senate fiasco, how many decades before we see another conservative majority? NOW is the time for action, instead we watch yet another political party in 110% damage control mode looking out for themselves, f*ck what ails us everyday folk.

Anybody who calls Harper's current fiasco "good government" deserves a slap.

A friggin' hard one, too.

CO. Yes ... good government. I would like to see you try.

You should turn off the CBC once in a while.

A Senator paid back expenses. Only a lefty can call that a fiasco.

Wow, you really don't get it, do you?

Anyone would have to be a real f*cking idiot to think my posts were from a leftard. That, or you would have to be a real hardcore partisan, which experience is showing me are about the same. Open your ears and eyes, LOTS of conservatives are pissed at how Harper is squandering this majority. How could you possibly not be aware of this?!?!

But that blindness defines so many hardcore partisans such as yourself, doesn't it? You made no rebuttal of any kind to my points, just some bigoted, tired, thoughtless rhetoric.(I especially liked the schoolyard taunt quality of "I would like to see you try")

Get back to me when you've made an honest effort to understand my point and have something intelligent to add.

When did Harper run on your view of "conservatism?" He set out his platforms and carried them out. Harper is a classical liberal, never has, never will be, a "conservative" in the ideological sense, any more than the Grits are "liberal." At least the NDP admit they're socialists, sort of. Ideologically conservative politicians are unelectable in Canada with their true electoral support nationally barely filling a small room.

His priority has always been the middle class, contrary to the meme-filled BS of Justin's commercials. Get it straight, any politician running on a ideologically conservative platform will guarantee power for the leftists and statists in this country who still think they are so wise and the majority supports them. Check out BC for evidence of this.

shamrock

I think you just gave CO that "slap" he was talking about:-)))

Yes, I'm some what disappointed in Harper, but he's governing the whole country, and there ain't many of us true conservatives out here, and needs to consider that when he makes decisions. And you are rite, Harpo is a centrist/moderate liberal, and would have been a bleeding lefty 50 years ago. Ppl like CO fail the understand the shifty social position of the population.

Harper is a classical liberal

Nothing says 'classical liberal' like massively expanded government, bailing out GM, putting people in jail for drug use, preserving supply management. Next time, try to know WTF you're talking about before using words you don't understand.

CO: welcome to my world. It's hard being lucid and objective in a sea of patisan retards. Partisanship is mental illness and it's KILLED Canada's political right. We are doing the exact same thing American contards did when they supported Bush. They made Obama possible. Apparently Canadian Contards are too dumb to learn from history.

This would certainly help middle class Canadians

Those that are married. Oh yay, more special goodies for favored sections of the electorate.
The Cons also want to implement some idiotic tax credits for working out or music or other stupid crap. Thanks for fracking up our relatively simple tax code Contards.

Ahso !!

LAS oh LAS, please research the political definition of classical liberalism - the attempt to balance liberty and economic freedom in a mixed economy - aka libertarianism though many mistakenly think that is right wing wacko anarchism. Well fine, Harper isn't a classical classical liberal - he's more pragmatic that that - in fact he's not ideological at all (he may have been in his past but saw its futility) so those attacks on him are quite ironic IMO. Purist ideological politics don't work in the modern political culture, it's too easy to stereotype and attack. It killed the NDP in BC. Pragmatism and sound policy is the order of the day - peace, order and good government - Harper represents our only hope at the moment even though his mix includes more government than many here would like.

Political choice is now more like a smorgasbord and Harper, though his menu might not have everyone's favourites, still puts on the best spread. The alternatives offer even less choice, less tasty food, poorer service and higher prices.

Please please stop substituting reality with your political tribalism. FACT: Harper is running to the left of the Chretien-Martin Administration FACT: 'lesser evil' is still evil

It is because of people like you that Obama took power. You did that.

"It is because of people like you that Obama took power. You did that"

Doubt it, Shamrock's probably Caucasian, alive, Irish, male and over 25. Bet he doesn't even have a Obama phone. Does not meet the criteria for a Obama voter.

No he did something a lot more important than vote for Obama: he supported Bush. Without Bush, Obama is a leftist pipedream.

Shorter Shamrock: Massive government expansion, deficits, and interference in the private sector are bad when Liberals do it but when Cons do it it's 'pragmatism'.

Principals besting principles.