I want him out as leader, but I was happy to hear him tell CTV to basically eff off.
I was just watching CTV because CBC had a Conservative on, and the reporter for CTV was being an idiot, trying to get in his face so he says something like "The last place I want to talk to is CTV."
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
The Scoreboard
Here are the results of my wish list and my reaction.
Expected
- I hope we hold the Conservatives to at least a Minority.
Check. Although I must admit I was scared there for a moment. I'll be talking more about this later, but I hope all of the people who vote split realize just how close we came to a disaster tonight. Right now the Conservatives are at 143, that's 12 seats away from destroying Canada. As much as I hate the NDP and the Greens we need to do something, we need to work this out somehow some way, because if we don't we're going to have a permanent Conservative government. And that's not just on the other side, people like me need to make sacrifices too, and I admit that.
- I hope Mike Savage wins my home riding (I live in Halifax now, but Dartmouth will always be my home)
Check, once again this one was close for a while but in the end he pulled away nicely. Thank God my home didn't go to the Orange Menace, although the riding I currently live in did. But Dartmouth will always be my home.
- I hope Siobhan Coady wins St. John's South-Mount Pearl.
Check, and I'm VERY happy to see her in, I first heard about her last election when CPAC did a profile of her riding and I was very impressed. I'm glad to see we'll have another strong Liberal voice in Parliament.
- I hope the Conservatives get shut out in Newfoundland.
Check, I never thought I'd be happy about anything Danny Williams did, but I am happy tonight, especially since those 3 seats coupled with a few shifts here and there could have meant disaster.
- I hope the Conservatives lose seats in Quebec.
Right now it's not clear whether they will or not, it's looking like I hold, but at least they didn't make huge inroads. The Bloc saved Canada tonight.
- I hope the Greens don't win a seat.
Check, This one was never really in doubt, but the scary thing is if their leader wasn't such an airhead and ran in a good Green seat she may well have won and that would have spelled disaster for the left vote in Canada. Unless we can come to some sort of agreement we're going to fall in to the same trap the Right was in for a long time.
Toss-Up
- I hope that like the last election we do better in Ontario than expected.
Epic Fail, not only did we not do better we got blown away in Ontario. I guess a new cloak and forcing his MPs to keep quiet foold Ontarians.
- I hope we see some Conservative cabinet ministers go down in flames tonight.
Can I count Michael Fortier? :D
- I hope the Greens don't finish any better than 2nd anywhere.
I meant to say I hope they don't finish at 2nd, but I forgot about Elizabeth May, so I'm happy that they didn't finish 2nd anywhere else, or so it seems at the moment.
Long Shot
- I hope we win Government.
As Maxwell Smart would say: Missed it by that much.
- I hope the Liberals can somehow overcome the Orange wave of ignorance in Halifax and elect Catherine Meade. It sucks living in a freakin Orange cesspool. (P.S. just so you're clear dippers, a vote for the NDP is a vote for a 2nd Stephen Harper term, don't delude yourself in to thinking otherwise.)
Not even Close. Sigh, maybe one day...
- I hope the Greens don't win enough votes to get federal funding. (I'm not normally Conservative on taxes, but why the Hell should my tax dollars go to support ANY political party? Particularly ones I wouldn't support if my life depended on it.)
They blew that out of the water, they're still a fringe party. They got their precious leader in the debate and didn't even win a single seat. That's the definition of Fringe Party.
- I hope the number of NDP MPs goes down.
Egh.... I hate the NDP, almost as much as I hate Conservatives.
- I hope Olivia Chow loses.
Nope.
- I Hope Gerard Kennedy wins, we're going to need someone as a viable alternative to Iggy and Rae.
Check, and this right here might have saved the Liberal party. Now I'll have someone to support who I won't be forced to hold my nose for. I hope we get some old Chretien people to run too, I'd have a hard time deciding between Brian Tobin and Gerard Kennedy.
So, all in all, a bad night for Canada, a bad night for progress, but not as bad as it could have been. We've got a lot of rebuilding to do.
Expected
- I hope we hold the Conservatives to at least a Minority.
Check. Although I must admit I was scared there for a moment. I'll be talking more about this later, but I hope all of the people who vote split realize just how close we came to a disaster tonight. Right now the Conservatives are at 143, that's 12 seats away from destroying Canada. As much as I hate the NDP and the Greens we need to do something, we need to work this out somehow some way, because if we don't we're going to have a permanent Conservative government. And that's not just on the other side, people like me need to make sacrifices too, and I admit that.
- I hope Mike Savage wins my home riding (I live in Halifax now, but Dartmouth will always be my home)
Check, once again this one was close for a while but in the end he pulled away nicely. Thank God my home didn't go to the Orange Menace, although the riding I currently live in did. But Dartmouth will always be my home.
- I hope Siobhan Coady wins St. John's South-Mount Pearl.
Check, and I'm VERY happy to see her in, I first heard about her last election when CPAC did a profile of her riding and I was very impressed. I'm glad to see we'll have another strong Liberal voice in Parliament.
- I hope the Conservatives get shut out in Newfoundland.
Check, I never thought I'd be happy about anything Danny Williams did, but I am happy tonight, especially since those 3 seats coupled with a few shifts here and there could have meant disaster.
- I hope the Conservatives lose seats in Quebec.
Right now it's not clear whether they will or not, it's looking like I hold, but at least they didn't make huge inroads. The Bloc saved Canada tonight.
- I hope the Greens don't win a seat.
Check, This one was never really in doubt, but the scary thing is if their leader wasn't such an airhead and ran in a good Green seat she may well have won and that would have spelled disaster for the left vote in Canada. Unless we can come to some sort of agreement we're going to fall in to the same trap the Right was in for a long time.
Toss-Up
- I hope that like the last election we do better in Ontario than expected.
Epic Fail, not only did we not do better we got blown away in Ontario. I guess a new cloak and forcing his MPs to keep quiet foold Ontarians.
- I hope we see some Conservative cabinet ministers go down in flames tonight.
Can I count Michael Fortier? :D
- I hope the Greens don't finish any better than 2nd anywhere.
I meant to say I hope they don't finish at 2nd, but I forgot about Elizabeth May, so I'm happy that they didn't finish 2nd anywhere else, or so it seems at the moment.
Long Shot
- I hope we win Government.
As Maxwell Smart would say: Missed it by that much.
- I hope the Liberals can somehow overcome the Orange wave of ignorance in Halifax and elect Catherine Meade. It sucks living in a freakin Orange cesspool. (P.S. just so you're clear dippers, a vote for the NDP is a vote for a 2nd Stephen Harper term, don't delude yourself in to thinking otherwise.)
Not even Close. Sigh, maybe one day...
- I hope the Greens don't win enough votes to get federal funding. (I'm not normally Conservative on taxes, but why the Hell should my tax dollars go to support ANY political party? Particularly ones I wouldn't support if my life depended on it.)
They blew that out of the water, they're still a fringe party. They got their precious leader in the debate and didn't even win a single seat. That's the definition of Fringe Party.
- I hope the number of NDP MPs goes down.
Egh.... I hate the NDP, almost as much as I hate Conservatives.
- I hope Olivia Chow loses.
Nope.
- I Hope Gerard Kennedy wins, we're going to need someone as a viable alternative to Iggy and Rae.
Check, and this right here might have saved the Liberal party. Now I'll have someone to support who I won't be forced to hold my nose for. I hope we get some old Chretien people to run too, I'd have a hard time deciding between Brian Tobin and Gerard Kennedy.
So, all in all, a bad night for Canada, a bad night for progress, but not as bad as it could have been. We've got a lot of rebuilding to do.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
My Wishes For the Election
I did this last election and although it wasn't particularly successful I figured I'd do it again. This time I'm going to break my wishes down in to three categories: Expected, Toss-Up, and Long Shot. All three are pretty much self explanatory.
Expected
- I hope we hold the Conservatives to at least a Minority.
- I hope Mike Savage wins my home riding (I live in Halifax now, but Dartmouth will always be my home)
- I hope Siobhan Coady wins St. John's South-Mount Pearl.
- I hope the Conservatives get shut out in Newfoundland.
- I hope the Conservatives lose seats in Quebec.
- I hope the Greens don't win a seat.
Toss-Up
- I hope that like the last election we do better in Ontario than expected.
- I hope we see some Conservative cabinet ministers go down in flames tonight.
- I hope the Greens don't finish any better than 2nd anywhere.
Long Shot
- I hope we win Government.
- I hope the Liberals can somehow overcome the Orange wave of ignorance in Halifax and elect Catherine Meade. It sucks living in a freakin Orange cesspool. (P.S. just so you're clear dippers, a vote for the NDP is a vote for a 2nd Stephen Harper term, don't delude yourself in to thinking otherwise.)
- I hope the Greens don't win enough votes to get federal funding. (I'm not normally Conservative on taxes, but why the Hell should my tax dollars go to support ANY political party? Particularly ones I wouldn't support if my life depended on it.)
- I hope the number of NDP MPs goes down.
- I hope Olivia Chow loses.
- I Hope Gerard Kennedy wins, we're going to need someone as a viable alternative to Iggy and Rae.
So, there we have it. I hope most of all that we can at least keep Harper to a minority again, it looks good but the latest Nanos poll showed a 3% rise in people making a terrible choice (a.k.a. Voting Conservative) over the Thanksgiving weekend.
Expected
- I hope we hold the Conservatives to at least a Minority.
- I hope Mike Savage wins my home riding (I live in Halifax now, but Dartmouth will always be my home)
- I hope Siobhan Coady wins St. John's South-Mount Pearl.
- I hope the Conservatives get shut out in Newfoundland.
- I hope the Conservatives lose seats in Quebec.
- I hope the Greens don't win a seat.
Toss-Up
- I hope that like the last election we do better in Ontario than expected.
- I hope we see some Conservative cabinet ministers go down in flames tonight.
- I hope the Greens don't finish any better than 2nd anywhere.
Long Shot
- I hope we win Government.
- I hope the Liberals can somehow overcome the Orange wave of ignorance in Halifax and elect Catherine Meade. It sucks living in a freakin Orange cesspool. (P.S. just so you're clear dippers, a vote for the NDP is a vote for a 2nd Stephen Harper term, don't delude yourself in to thinking otherwise.)
- I hope the Greens don't win enough votes to get federal funding. (I'm not normally Conservative on taxes, but why the Hell should my tax dollars go to support ANY political party? Particularly ones I wouldn't support if my life depended on it.)
- I hope the number of NDP MPs goes down.
- I hope Olivia Chow loses.
- I Hope Gerard Kennedy wins, we're going to need someone as a viable alternative to Iggy and Rae.
So, there we have it. I hope most of all that we can at least keep Harper to a minority again, it looks good but the latest Nanos poll showed a 3% rise in people making a terrible choice (a.k.a. Voting Conservative) over the Thanksgiving weekend.
Please Vote
No matter who you vote for, please vote. People fought and died so that we could live in a country where we are free to determine our own destiny, please honor their sacrifice.
Monday, October 13, 2008
I Just Gained Some Respect for Elizabeth May
Which isn't really that notable considering the very low level I had for her before.
But I must say she did speak the truth yesterday when it comes to The Mustache (a.k.a. Jack Layton)
As for May, one of the advantages of knowing there's no chance in Hell you'll ever win a seat in Parliament, EVER is that you can say whatever you want and not have to worry about electoral consequences. I'm happy that she's advocating strategic voting. Of course if all the center/left people in the country voted Liberal we'd never have to worry about a Conservative government again. I wish someone would start a viable right wing party to split the Conservative votes some. If the thought of Conservatism didn't make me want to puke I'd do it myself.
Elizabeth May should join the Liberal party and put her talents to good use and stop wasting them with this fringe party. But hey, Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven I guess.
But I must say she did speak the truth yesterday when it comes to The Mustache (a.k.a. Jack Layton)
"I think she’s muddying the waters," Valerie Powell said. "I think she’s the best prime minister, and we have to keep working hard as Greens to make sure we have as many MPs as possible." Asked if she is muddying the waters, May responded, "It’s true I am." "I love Valerie and I read her full quotes and they weren’t harsh or unfair. She’s right, life would be simpler if I acted like (NDP Leader) Jack Layton and didn’t care if Stephen Harper formed government again. "Life would be simpler if I were a complete hypocrite like Jack Layton and pretended I cared about the climate when all of his strategy makes his own personal success more important than survival of the climate and decent climate policy. "I’m just not that person."This is exactly how I feel about Jack Layton, especially after the whole Afghanistan war fiasco, I don't agree with the Conservatives on this one but he was all "we need to get out now, blah blah blah." And he didn't give a shit about the troops, anyone with half a brain could see that, all he cared about was getting more votes. His unfitness to be in any position of leadership was made blindingly clear when he and Harper caved in on allowing the Greens in to the debate in the first place.
As for May, one of the advantages of knowing there's no chance in Hell you'll ever win a seat in Parliament, EVER is that you can say whatever you want and not have to worry about electoral consequences. I'm happy that she's advocating strategic voting. Of course if all the center/left people in the country voted Liberal we'd never have to worry about a Conservative government again. I wish someone would start a viable right wing party to split the Conservative votes some. If the thought of Conservatism didn't make me want to puke I'd do it myself.
Elizabeth May should join the Liberal party and put her talents to good use and stop wasting them with this fringe party. But hey, Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven I guess.
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