Re:Canadian Federal Election 2004-Opinion Poll

[KEmperor]

Were I Canadian, I would certainly be voting CPC this election. It is the party I would want as my leadership. In addition, as an American I recognize they would be the friendliest govt to our nation.

However, I have noticed an unfortunate trend in world affairs recently. The USA has become so dominant that in most democracies worldwide, the main foreign policy issue among the masses is snubbing the US. No one seems to support some kind of actual hostile action, but the majority most places just seems to want to say "heh heh, you silly American persons, food trough wipers, your father is a hamster and your mother smells of elderberries". This appears to be true not just in France but in Australia, Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan- just about every foreign democracy but Israel.

As a result of this, govts seen as too pro-American are regularly trrashed by their opponents. Maybe the Phillipine election broke the winning streak of les Obstructionistes, but I'm not holding my breath.

So while a CPC victory would be cool, it would probably fairly short lived, with the Canadian electorate turning 'em out at the first opportunity for a real nast CHirac-style anti-American, whose main purpose in life is to be annoying to the USA, to fart in our general direction, if you will. Like our old friend Chretien. So Martin might actually be the better long term outcome, all things considered. He would ONLY be a bad ally, refuse to help us in a tight spot, and constantly snipe at us from the sidelines, clearly using the myth that neutrality against a totalitarian threat is some kind of moral high ground. Whereas a conservative in the short term might in the long term lead to someione who actually goes out of his way to gather people together to say arrogant, annoying things to us from the world podium.

I voted CPC.

Just to prove that snubbing the Americans is a common check out the ad in the top left corner, called Harper and the Conservatives.

I think it's powerful, I like it, despite what everyone else says.

http://www.liberal.ca/ads_e.aspx

Siege

Hmm, I like this Harper guy already.