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Title: May won't join Liberals and blames NDP for Harper's victory
Category: Political
Posted By: ridenrain
Date: 2008-11-03 06:57:46
Canadian

[hurley_108]

Someone should give Elizabeth May a math lesson. The Liberals dropped 4.01% from 2006 in popular vote. The NDP rose 0.65%. The Green Party gained 2.32%, and the Conservatives gained 1.36%. The Liberals lost the most, and the Greens gained the most. If any party other than the Liberal party is responsible for the Liberals' losses (and I'm not sure there is much blame at all outside the Liberals themselves), it certainly falls mostly on the Greens.

Oh well. They elected nobody, they'll have a hell of a time convincing anyone else to cross to them, and they'll probably drop off again next time around.

[martin14]

she's going Rogue !!

[dino_bobba_renno]

hurley_108 hurley_108:

Someone should give Elizabeth May a math lesson. The Liberals dropped 4.01% from 2006 in popular vote. The NDP rose 0.65%. The Green Party gained 2.32%, and the Conservatives gained 1.36%. The Liberals lost the most, and the Greens gained the most. If any party other than the Liberal party is responsible for the Liberals' losses (and I'm not sure there is much blame at all outside the Liberals themselves), it certainly falls mostly on the Greens.

Oh well. They elected nobody, they'll have a hell of a time convincing anyone else to cross to them, and they'll probably drop off again next time around.

May isn't one to let facts get in the way of her delusions. I'm surprised her own party didn't lynch her after her endorsement of voting Liberal for strategic reasons. She seems to forget which party she represents sometimes.

[uwish]

I just better not see that party in another national debate at the next election.

With no seat in the house she and her 'party' have no right to ask or expect one.

[bootlegga]

uwish uwish:

I just better not see that party in another national debate at the next election.

With no seat in the house she and her 'party' have no right to ask or expect one.

Well, about one million Canadians disagree with you, having voted for her party. Like it or not, that's a sizeable minority that should have representation at leaders debates.

I may not like her or her party very much, but under a parliamentary democracy, her voice should heard. The current system (FPTP) will likely prevent her (and the party) from ever getting a seat.

[PENATRATOR]

Does this attention whore even matter?

[Tricks]

PENATRATOR PENATRATOR:

Does this attention whore even matter?

No.

[hurley_108]

Tricks Tricks:

PENATRATOR PENATRATOR:

Does this attention whore even matter?

No.

uwish uwish:

I just better not see that party in another national debate at the next election.

With no seat in the house she and her 'party' have no right to ask or expect one.

Wow. I'd have thought you guys would be thanking her for helping to split the left and get you your bigger minority.

[Ninefold]

Nice media. Elizabeth May has endlessly criticized our flawed voting system, the moment she says something of the NDP, NEWS!

The real blame is a deeply flawed voting system. We, the supposed democratic participants of Canadian democracy, are the victims. All political parties should have this problem as a strict priority, but it shows complete contempt for democracy that it is not, by them, or the media.

The notion to merge parties to accommodate this flawed system shows further contempt for democracy.

[ridenrain]

dino_bobba_renno dino_bobba_renno:

I'm surprised her own party didn't lynch her after her endorsement of voting Liberal for strategic reasons. She seems to forget which party she represents sometimes.

I think that's dead on. She's afraid more of her key people are either going to leave or demand she leave because she's obviously not a leader for the green party. She started the election with an agreement not to run a candidate against Dion, told voters to vote Liberal and probably would have been appointed enviroment minister if the Liberals had won.

She's a joke and she's an albatros to her party.

[PENATRATOR]

hurley_108 hurley_108:

Tricks Tricks:

PENATRATOR PENATRATOR:

Does this attention whore even matter?

No.

uwish uwish:

I just better not see that party in another national debate at the next election.

With no seat in the house she and her 'party' have no right to ask or expect one.

Wow. I'd have thought you guys would be thanking her for helping to split the left and get you your bigger minority.

No Hurley, unlike yourself, I will call a spade a spade, no partisan whining. Blue, Red or Orange and in this case Green, if you are a tool or an attention whore (ala Dennis Coderre also) I have no problem saying so.

[uwish]

hurley_108 hurley_108:

Tricks Tricks:

PENATRATOR PENATRATOR:

Does this attention whore even matter?

No.

uwish uwish:

I just better not see that party in another national debate at the next election.

With no seat in the house she and her 'party' have no right to ask or expect one.

Wow. I'd have thought you guys would be thanking her for helping to split the left and get you your bigger minority.

did it really split THAT much? Considering all the seats the liberals lost but 7 went conservative, I don't see that as much of a split.

Combined with the Greens loosing their only seat I would say....

so what?

[hurley_108]

uwish uwish:

did it really split THAT much? Considering all the seats the liberals lost but 7 went conservative, I don't see that as much of a split.

Combined with the Greens loosing their only seat I would say....

so what?

No, it didn't split THAT much. I never said it did, and if you'll read my first post, I said that the Liberals' losses are the Liberals' own fault. But it certainly didn't help, and May is now being a sore loser.

[Freakinoldguy]

bootlegga bootlegga:

I may not like her or her party very much, but under a parliamentary democracy, her voice should heard. The current system (FPTP) will likely prevent her (and the party) from ever getting a seat.

I agree. Let her speak. Everytime she opens that pie hole and spouts her delusional rhetoric she sinks her party a little farther into the abyss.

$1:

"I certainly don't blame myself at all," said Ms. May, who spoke to The Hill Times from a payphone in Truro, N.S., after just stepping off a train.

If they ever hope to become an actual viable party, rather than a fringe political entity, the first thing they have to do is get rid of Ms "it's everybody elses fault but mine". Getting a telephone might help to.