Saturday, September 17, 2011

Where is the Ontario P. C. Party?

Why vote P.C. ?

Seriously? Does anyone know?

On Thursday, Christina Blizzard said exactly what I've been thinking. How exactly do Tim Hudak and the rest of the invisible Progressive Conservatives, differ from the status quo? Besides standing right along side Dalton, where does the P.C. Party stand?

If I want all-day kindergarten, I just won't bother to vote . . . why would I? I'm not voting NDP, that's just a given. And I won't be voting Liberal given that they never promised all-day kindergarten, a health premium, the HST, the eco-tax and yet now we have them -- costing us billions. But why do the P.C.s deserve my vote if they're keeping almost all of the stupid that Dalton decided was good for us?

Fact is, despite not being brave enough to ditch much of the garbage the Liberals have dumped on Ontario, the P.C.s have some okay ideas. For example The Home Energy section of the P.C. website was really informative --- I didn't know the debt being paid by the Debt Retirement Charge on your hydro bill had been paid off, but that the Liberals extended the fee for another 8 years anyway -- and because I didn't know that, I didn't know that the P.C.s would be removing that from our hydro bills ---- but I shouldn't have to go the website to find it out.

Message to Tim Hudak and . . . whoever else might be out there for the Conservatives: If you want my vote, work for it! Show me what you've got and don't make me me seek out the good things you plan to do. Most of the time I'm just too lazy -- and this is coming from someone who is actually interested in politics. The average voter hasn't heard a thing you have to say . . . that is, if you've said anything at all --- because besides yapping something about *foreign workers* I don't recall hearing you.

Oh, and if you wanted me to vote for you because the Liberals are promising something stupid ($10k for hiring immigrants) then instead of saying how asinine *they* are, I'd have rather heard your plan. Instead, I just heard *gotcha!* and tuned you out. Whoever has been doing your spinning, has just been spinning their wheels.

Sorry to be so negative, but hey . . . if you want positive reviews, do something to earn them.

canadianna

4 comments:

Cytotoxic said...

You can vote Libertarian or Freedom Party instead!

Anonymous said...

Oh please no! The so called Freedom Party represents the worst of left-libertarianism and libertine values. The PC party needs to get back to the essence of conservatism to win over voters.

Anonymous said...

I disagree anonymous. I don't think that the "brain trust"
(term used extremely loosely) believe that they are losing any conservative votes when they run a crappy, or empty, platform like they have in this case.

Voting for the Freedom Party is a good way to register a protest against the political cowardice of what passes for a conservative party in Ontario.

It's more worthwhile than spoiling your ballot or not showing up at all.

Let them see 10 or 20,000 votes that obscure party, and they will begin to understand how many dis-illusioned conservatives are waiting for a real conservative party to follow and fight for.

Cytotoxic said...

"libertine values" = freedoms SoCons don't approve of and hypocritically want to suppress, because they are evil.