Common Sense isn't that Common

I have to laugh when I hear some of my Conservative friends say the main reason they want their party to take power is so they can clean up Ottawa. They seem to think their party is a grand coalition of goodness, led by a knight in shining armor, that the Conservatives will be choir boys to the Liberal's school bullies. Such naiveté can only be met with a laugh.

Let it be clear, the Conservatives do want to clean up Ottawa, but the only thing their mops and brooms have any interest in purging are the Liberals themselves. They don't want to clean up corruption; they want to be the ones doing the corrupting. They want power so they can bring in their cold-hearted agenda, and give senatorships and ambassadorships to their friends. How do I know this? Because that’s what every party wants to do.

Now others have said this, far more eloquently than I. But Conservative supports still cling to the fantasy.

A Conservative blogger named Anonalogue had this to say on the subject:

When you hear people say stuff like “all politicians are crooks” or “Harper is just as bad as Martin”, drop the following Anonalogue-Approved Science ™ on them:

“This is more an indictment of your inability to discern right from wrong than anything else.

A small child could understand that the magnitude of Liberal corruption - stealing public money to cheat in federal elections, twice - is so much greater than what reasonably could be expected from a Stephen Harper government featuring the Accountability Act as the foundation of his platform that it is simply absurd to suggest in any way that all parties and all politicians are equally bad.

When you say all parties or all politicians are equally bad, you are effectively saying “I lack the morality to differentiate between widely varying degrees of honour and corruption. I literally can’t tell right from wrong. Mike Harcourt is the same as Hitler. Lorne Calvert is the same as Caligula”

To say this statement is Science, whether it be Anonalogue-Approved or not is an insult to Scientists everywhere. I would classify it more in the fiction section. For example:

“A small child could understand that the magnitude of Liberal corruption.”

I would argue that a small child would also be able to view the past and to learn from it. Unfortunately history has shown that absolute power corrupts. To believe that a Conservative government would be any different than any other government in the history of the country is to believe a child-like fairy tale.

“Stealing public money to cheat in federal elections, twice - is so much greater than what reasonably could be expected from a Stephen Harper government featuring the Accountability Act as the foundation of his platform.”

The Conservatives have constantly complained that the Liberals frequently broke promises from their red book platforms. Why is it so hard for them to believe that their heroes are capable of the same thing? “Oh but they’re Conservatives, they don’t lie.” You say. Really? They lied to the Canadian people about the nature of a bogus Confidence motion in the spring. They lied when they said they wanted to make Parliament work, as evidenced by the fact they joined with the Bloc to shut it down early several days in a row. They lied when they said the government must be brought down at the earliest opportunity. And they lied when they said the Government no longer has the moral authority to govern. I even caught them in a lie earlier in the year!

"When you say all parties or all politicians are equally bad, you are effectively saying “I lack the morality to differentiate between widely varying degrees of honour and corruption. I literally can’t tell right from wrong. Mike Harcourt is the same as Hitler. Lorne Calvert is the same as Caligula”

This is a clever diversion from the argument Liberal supporters make. You see here he invokes Hitler to shock you in to not paying attention to what he actually said. He claims that we are saying that all politicians are the same, when that is not what we are saying at all. Anyone who does say that is obviously wrong as pointed out in the above statement. No, what we are saying is that the Conservatives are no better than the Liberals when it comes to the issue of Corruption. This has been proven time and time again in the history of our country, one party is corrupt so the other party says “We’ll clean it up!” And they do, they clean up the old corruption and replace it with their own.

So, in the absence of the corruption issue, Canadians should vote for the party that most closely represents the values they hold. To vote on the basis of corruption would just be repeating the mistakes of past voters.