kontrol: In a world where financing wasn’t an issue, you may well be right. Unfortunately, it is, and a leadership convention now would seriously hurt the Liberal’s chances of being able to mount an effective opposition for a good long time — meaning we’d be stuck with exactly like we have now, the Lib’s being afraid to pull the plug not because they think the other side has winning policies, but just because they can’t afford to, and the other side making every vote one where no compromise is allowed. That doesn’t benefit anyone.

You want to know why I’m pissed? Because the Conservatives made some good promises. If they’d have lived up to them there’d be no question in my mind that they’d be approaching majority territory, even though I don’t like a lot of what they stand for. Instead, they pissed it away by being afraid to admit any mistakes, and being unwilling to countenance any sort of compromise or consultation.

It’s that sort of pathetic ineptitude that makes me angry at them, and because of that doesn’t want them forming the next government, even if that means we get stuck with Liberals.