The barring corporate donations and low caps on personal donations is a great idea. I'd vote for that. I'd support that. But Harper wasn't suggesting we replace the system. He was suggesting that we eliminate the system we have to score himself some points and cripple his enemies. It backfired.
Yup; IMHO, it was a reform that was being made for entirely the wrong reasons, and transparently so. Harper should maybe have remembered that he was elected to govern, not destroy his enemies, crush them beneath his heel, and burn their castles to the ground.
I could see donating to the Liberals and Greens and NDP, but do you have to give to the Bloc too? I mean, the Conservatives are right-wing jerks, but they're not ethnic nationalists and they're really just a little farther to the right than the Liberals used to be, and not dedicated to blowing up the country...
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Date: 2008-12-03 03:34 pm (UTC)Yup; IMHO, it was a reform that was being made for entirely the wrong reasons, and transparently so. Harper should maybe have remembered that he was elected to govern, not destroy his enemies, crush them beneath his heel, and burn their castles to the ground.
I could see donating to the Liberals and Greens and NDP, but do you have to give to the Bloc too? I mean, the Conservatives are right-wing jerks, but they're not ethnic nationalists and they're really just a little farther to the right than the Liberals used to be, and not dedicated to blowing up the country...