Good luck to Jack Layton and the NDP

[Cascadian]

I want to wish Jack Layton and the New Democrats much success in today's election. If I were Canadian and a voter, I would be supporting the NDP. No disrespect to the Liberals but that party needs new leadership and a return to the ideals of Pierre Trudeau's "Just Society". Canada deserves better.

All and all, I will be satisfied as long as that Harper and his lunatic pals do not win!







John

[Brundle_Fly]

1. NDP

would be great, if we had the money.

we don't, unless they raise our taxes.

Canadians, pay Lots. and I mean LOTS of tax already.

but I agree there mandate is the best.

[LSparkle]

2. Amen! I'll just be thankful if Cons don't win an outright majority

I've heard things have really shifted in their favor lately ... Harper is a total Bush kiss-ass; I don't think I'll be able to bear the photo-ops if he wins ...

[meppie-meppie not]

3. Harper will do for GW what Monica did for Clinton,,

think I'll go out and get him some knee pads...

[Minstrel Boy]

4. Thanks. I'm excited about tonight.

I think we're going to do well. Better than we have in nearly 20 years. (Still not as well as reflected by our popular support, but maybe someday electoral reform can change that.) Canada is a better place with a strong NDP caucus.

[nicknameless]

5. Jack Layton is the candidate preferred over Harper?

[Cascadian]

6. Martin is damaged goods!

I would rather vote NDP over Martin and the Libs. All those scandals, blunders, and the fact he was acting like "Tory Lite" did not endear Paul Martin to the voters. The only way for the Liberals to make a comeback is for the Liberal Party of Canada to have brand new leadership and a return to a Trudeauist platform. I know I have said this in other posts today but this is just my view.

John Cascadian. A friend and neighbor of Canada!

[nicknameless]

7. Sorry that I'm ignorant of Canadian politics.

The Libs were formerly the party of choice but they've moved too far to the right?
So now NDP is preferred?

I want to know who to be pulling for, but all I know is that Harper is bad news.

There's kind of a universal rule that you tend to get what you focus on the most. Just an outsider's observation, it seems that folks on DU are mostly focused on not wanting Harper, rather than on who they DO want.

If you focus mostly on what you fear/resist, that's more likely what you get stuck with.
I'd like to focus on a positive outcome for Canada, and that would be Layton, I guess (?)

[Minstrel Boy]

8. The NDP is the party of the left

and the reason Canada has public health care.

The Liberals are centrists, though the Canadian centre is further left than the American.

"If you focus mostly on what you fear/resist, that's more likely what you get stuck with."

You put it well. The Liberals like to scaremonger left voters into supporting them during elections, and then frequently renege on progressive promises after they form government. That strategy doesn't seem to be working so well this time. There's a broad consensus that the Liberals have discredited themselves and need a time out of power. (After all, they've governed something like 80 of the last 100 years.)

The NDP won't form the government this election, but a strong NDP caucus will be a vigorous opposition to the Conservatives while the Liberals figure out what they're about.

[nicknameless]

10. Thank you for the info. :)

I wish the US could switch to a parliamentary system of government. What we have currently is too corruptible.

I'll be pulling for NDP and Layton. :)

[Canuckistanian]

9. Here's the line-up

Jack Layton - NDP party - Left leaning progressive/liberal

Paul Martin (incumbent Prime Minister)- Liberal party - centrist liberal

Steven Harper - Conservative Party - right leaning conservative (very right)

Gilles Duceppe - Bloc Quebecois - left leaning Quebec-only party (officially separatist)

[nicknameless]

11. Thank you for posting that.

Sorry to hear what's happened to Martin.