Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Are we better off with Harper?

Here yet again, we are faced with the worst choices in leaders to choose from, as talk of a general federal election looms quite large. The federal Tories will be answering their preemptive strike question for us, because supposedly we are better off with Harper, without the fuss and muss of answering the question ourselves in the booth as to whether Stephen deserves a majority, minority or to lose it all. Like I say, if he calls an election singlehandedly right now, he knows he at least has a minority, but as he would be now breaking his own rules of the agenda, he would be kissing any chance at that coveted majority, if he really wants to be like Brian Mulroney. Conservatives may have a legitimate advantage over the Liberals, New Democrats, Bloc and Greens, but the power gained by being governors has been pissed away through killing promised reform initiatives by its grassroots base, something that was going to obviously happen after the merger, which leaves Reformers supporting Progressives without any of the principles to back that support up. Harper and Mulroney have not yet merged Reformers and Progressives fully into this new Conservative movement, today with a faltering economy and tax and spend policy to boot, that said none of the opposition parties or provincial governments have put a hole through its agenda, therefore it shall be returned with not a majority, but a minority, until the Liberals can landslide their way back into office again.