The Dude

I'm so happy when people like you use the word "enlighten" as though my opinion is somehow not worthy of your level of intelligence. lol It's like using that word already negates what my answer will say. So I'll give a short list. Let's see. A shift to the right to a wannabe republican party, anti-abortion, christian nationalism, no defense of our health care when the teabaggers were attacking it, a creationist in the treasury, a Minister of Science that denies evolution, the biggest deficit in history, attacking anyone that dares to disagree with Harper, etc etc etc Feel enlightened yet? Or do I need to do the conservative thing and just do name calling?

No matter what the differences are between the "progressive" parties, there is something more at stake here. Whatever it takes, we gotta get rid of the regressive party that's creating a country I no longer recognize. Whether it's strategic voting, coalitions, or formal agreements, the parties have to forget their petty differences. Otherwise we will have the CRAP Coalition coming up the middle with minority rule. 2/3 of us are progressive. We need to take our country back before it's too late. For those who may have not seen this, I took it from that Spectre guy. It was a google news thingy, so don't come after me. But this is the most interesting thing I've read in a long time. Read to the Layton part... "In one respect, the results of an Angus Reid poll to be released on Monday are not surprising — the Conservatives are at 35 per cent, the Liberals at 27 and the NDP are at 19 per cent; in Quebec, the Bloc leads with 37 per cent. However, the poll also asked Canadians how they would vote if the Liberals and NDP went to the polls offering Canadians a coalition government, and here things get interesting. According to the results published in Monday’s edition of La Presse, the Conservatives led by Stephen Harper would defeat a coalition led by Michael Ignatieff 40-34 per cent. With Bob Rae as Liberal leader, the coalition and Conservatives would be tied. However, if the coalition were to propose Jack Layton as prime minister, according to the Reid poll, it could defeat the Conservatives by 43-37 per cent. The reason: Jack Layton is well-liked by Quebecers but they don’t vote for the NDP because they see no chance of the party forming government; with the prospect of Mr. Layton in the prime minister’s office, 44 per cent of Quebecers would vote NDP — 10 per cent more than the Bloc. The pollster says that the question was only theoretical, and was only asked because of the results of the British election and because of Jean Chrétien’s statement on CBC last week that if a coalition is doable they parties should do it. And it’s hard to believe that these numbers would last through a campaign, though it’s worth noting that the poll has Mr. Layton as the most popular of the federal leaders (30 per cent to Harper’s 29). But it sure would make for an interesting election, and, in the nearer term, it will be interesting to see how the Liberals deal with the results of the survey. " http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/spector-vision/prime-minister-layton/article1586238/