Top Ten Unconservative Contest Finalists!
May 26, 2009 · By Greg Farries
We received a lot of great entries to the Top Ten Unconservative Things… Contest. I spent most of the morning trying my best to narrow them down to just ten. However, I think most would agree that the ten entries below should accurately cover some of the disappointments many conservatives have had to endure.
Here is your opportunity to vote for your favorite unconservative entry. The author of the entry that receives the most votes will receive the signed copy of Mark Steyn’s book, America Alone (see note below). I’ve actually got two copies of America Alone, so I’m going to be giving away another copy to those who submit a vote. So after submitting a vote, please contact me or post a quick note in the comments section below. Make sure to remember to include a proper email address, so if your name is drawn i can contact you directly and get your mailing address.
how about all of the above are unconservative.
Those were good! It was very difficult to only vote for one. I voted for the CHRC option but I see my second choice is running in first place right now!
Definitely the auto bailouts, tho the alternate meant the entire industry moved to the US.
Are you working on the top ten Conservative things this government has done, Greg?
Some suggestions, if you are:
-Restore pride in and funding to our Military ending the Liberal Decade of Darkness
-Raise the age of consent to 16
-Put Tamil Tigers on the terrorist list
-Bring in the Accountability Act
-Income Splitting for Seniors
-Tackling Violent Crime Act
-Taxpayers Bill of Rights
-Universal child Care
-Tax Free Savings Account
-Labour Mobility Agreements, Interprovincial
I think the pandering to the climate change crowd is the worst because it is so dangerous. It can ultimately lead to the complete undermining of our economy and regulation after regulation.
I have to say the top conservative thing is bringing back pride and resources to our military.
So many to choose. Why no entrys regarding putting up with Spector?
I agree with wilson, get a poll about the top ten things the Conservatives have done, why be so negative?
You know I’m kind of glad the conservatives are changing. I am fiscally conservative but socially liberal. Where it gets dicey is that it’s probably impossible to hand out money to everyone and lower taxes with the amount of money. lol. Actually I think Harper is doing great for my particular mindset.
I would have liked to vote for 3. My 2nd and 3rd choices are running 1 and 2 so far.
Even though I would have voted for the massive deficit spending, I in my heart of heart believe that it is lip service to keep in power (and mitigate the political risk). The stimulus spending will not all take place and deficits will not be so bad. The economy will recover before all the money is blown and the situation will be re-evaluated.
On the positive list: The revamping of immigration to fast track skilled workers over family reunification is a conservative as it gets AND makes sense (not a vote loser or polarizing issue) and will be a legacy action that will shape Canada (positively) for generations to come.
Okay it might be somewhat polarizing but I can live without the current Jamaican gang recruiting immigration policy and associated votes.
no fair, I can’t pick them all!
The one that drives me crazy is the billions in bank bailouts.
Canadian banks are not or ever have been in a finantial bind.
After recieving billions of of our tax dollars through buying up bad debit. Public statments started to flow like we dont know what to do with all this money. The government is forcing us to take it, so wer’e going to buy US banks with it. (Most did) This is why i didint vote PC in the last election or by the sounds of it ever again, that comes from a former card caring member.
peter
An “all of the above” option would have been appopriate!
I went for deficit financing, but that’s a tough choice. Human Rights Commisions, bailouts, incandescent light bulbs (which properly falls under the whole pandering to climate change milieu).
It might be nice to see Allowing the Human Rights Commission and Human Rights Tribunal to continue win, then here in Ontario, certain leadership campaigns will get the message that it is a big deal.
I can’t fathom how universal child care is conservative. Another gulag on taxpayer’s dime.
Putting LTTE on terrorist list is exactly what you said – putting on the list. It changed nothing, and made the things even worse. They are now blocking our highways. Deportation is due, not another piece of paper.
BTW, I voted for bailout being top non-conservative. Budget deficit may exist under any government, it’s non-partisan by definition. But giving taxpayer money to poorly run businesses is pure socialism.
‘Interesting what Connie has to say. It sounds like between the things the CPC is doing wrong and the things they’re doing right, they’re appealing to a broad segment of Canadians.
The one great thing they’ve done right is TO STAY IN OFFICE. Canada will be a devastation if the LPC gets back into power, with the Pretender to the Throne, Count Iggula, presiding. The CPC in power have spared us that.
Harper has disappointed with all of the above. The alternate though is much worse.
It’s one thing to maintain moral purity (like Coyne) from the sidelines. It’s another to get elected (with a minority) while trying to enact at least a partial program while simultaneously attempting to gain a majority.
The conservative’s cardinal fault is the lack of context and compromise. Politics is about jettisoning (or at least postponing) that which you cannot hope to achieve while gaining ground where you can achieve success. It’s about setting priorities. No priority is possible without the power to do it. Harper has a minority in both the house and the senate and isn’t even on the playing field on the supreme court. What do you think he can do?
What do we want? Watered down conservatives or full-on Liberals in power? If we refuse to concede defeat on some issues we concede defeat on all issues.
I’ll take a partial victory over pouting rights any day.
I would like to add my voice to those calling for the top 10 things that conservatives have done that are conservative.
I would also like to say that although I am certianly not a fan of many things that have been done, if the Liberals were in charge it would be a lot worse
All good choices, but reducing taxes in order to limit the amount of dough that government has available to splash around has to be the #1 conservative goal. Therefore the #1 unconservative thing they have done is the Halloween 2006 income trust fiasco.
I was really torn between the Human Rights commissions and the deficit spending. In the end, I had to choose the spending.
RG
Definitely the CHRC! There is nothing as fundamental as the freedom of speech. If we lose that as a country we are nothing. Democracy fails and the whining on the other nonconservative choices are moot.
None of the above.
Acquiescing in the insanity of mass immigration, and its transformation of what used to be a country into a multiculti mess (without even the fig leaf justification of economic benefit – h/t George Borjas, Harvard economist) is far and away the most unconservative thing any government could ever do.
The second most unconservative thing is abandoning the resistance to gay “marriage”.
If they don’t get these things, they ain’t conservative.
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My biggest beef with our conservative government is not on the list. My biggest problem with them is “THEY ARE GOVERNING LIKE A BUNCH OF LIBERALS”. What the heck ever happened to being conservative? They forgot it all when they ran the Reform out and we have not had a conservative view from them since.
I voted for the tax increases but I should have voted for auto bailouts. Can I vote again tomorrow?
The auto bail-outs were tops for me. The spending / deficit option was a close second.
I voted for the tolerating the HRDC. I do agree with Jason, Batb, BC voice of reason and Wilson. The failure to get rid of the long gun registry should NOT be on the list because Gerry Breitkreutz (poor spelling, the M.P. from Sask who uncovered the multi million dollar boondoggle that that Allen Rock inspiration is – I wonder where all that money is now?) had a private members bill to scrap it and it was defeated by the Puffin/Dipper/Blochead coalition. The same coalition voted for a Blochead motion to refund the useless registry. The Conservatives are in a minority and the coalition is united against anything that would help Canadians because they want to get their sticky fingers back in the tax cookie jar.
No member of the coalition (Dipper.Puffin, Blochead M.P. s) work for the Canadian people; they go to the House of Commons with their own pocketbooks in mind.
Righto Bryan! If the Libs had been in charge……
I don’t even want to ponder that.
Difficult to choose…so much hypocricy.
I voted for increased spending and return to defecits; while I don’t like paying exhorbitant taxes, I may be able to tolerate it if spending was reigned in and the surplus went to pay down the defecit.
If you do have a Conservative contest then my suggestion would be support for Israel (at least until a few days ago).
I voted for not getting rid of HRC It is fundamentally wrong to allow them to continue to run amok. the bailout were a close second but if they hadn’t done something it would be worse. I think it’s bad to reward company execs for running their businesses into the ground. Under the circumstances,global economy and all i don’t really see how they could have handled it much different than they did. I would have gone for an all of the above too. It would be much worse with any other party. They w3ere all screaming for bailouts at a much higher rate. I think the other parties would bankrupt us for votes like Obama is ding.
there are some really great choices in the list. Most folks commenting here have been good with their reasons for choosing their vote. I went with the bail-outs. Deficit spending was a natural first choice, but considering the mess the global economy is in, I doubt the CPC had much in the way of options. That, coupled with Canada’s economic yoke to the U.S. economy, our fortunes and policy choices are more U.S.-driven than we would prefer, but indeed they are.
Harper is the best man for the job. Things would be a real mess if Dion had won the last election. It scares me to even ponder the implications of a Dion-led government……even a minority one.
Yikes!