Yes I should vote, but for whom?

Decisions decisions, do we really have to bear down, get our face in a knot and worry about this?

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I notice the CBC broadcasters are doing a lot of cheerleading and give much promotion to their favourite lefty Liberals and the NDP. It seems like about six times more free air time than the short sound bites they allot Stephen Harper and his Conservatives. I'm sure they fear that if Harper gets a majority he will re-examine the cumbersome tax-sucking CBC towards being more representative and their cushy gravy train careers could be un-coupled. The other main stream left-bias media is also promoting the Liberals and NDP.   It's perverse propaganda journalism at its worse, an obvious reflection of what's happening with the American Obamamania media.   Anyways I still have to think it out for myself. Why not simply use the good old process-of-elimination as to perception? Ok kids, try this method at home.   GREENS ?..... single issue,  climate hysteria, anti-growth, backward, earth de-populating, control freak alarmists who want to indoctrinate everyone with their insanely sanctimonious ideology propoganda and rule our every thought and move. Shills for laundering our taxdollars to Al Gore and economic meltdown... Compost this one.   BLOC ?..... Quebec Seperatists who wormed their way onto the national scene and want to have a say in how we live in the rest of Canada, without running one candidate outside of Quebec. With all due respect, how do these idealists dreamers aquire such national status?... Au revoir.   NDP ?..... With crafty (used car salesman) slick carnival Jack Layton huckstering his magic no-money-down sub-prime lavish solutions with our tax dollars. His campaign, (training-camp-modeled) after his backslapping idol 'On-the-Take Obama'.  Presenting themselves as centralist socialist saviors but deep down are really communists wana-bees in disguise? Too many hemp heads? (Give politicians enough hemp/rope and they will eventually hang themselves)... Easy butt-out.   LIBERALS ?..... Their leader appears like a nice little small minded 'Peter Principled' academic type. However he seems a tad anxious that they might not get back into the treasury to get their greedy little hands in the public trough and spread our taxdollars around to their friends again. Also, Desperate (see no evil, hear no evil) Dion and his campaign manager David Suzuki are so far up Al Gore's headquarters his (carbon tax) dog Kyoto keeps bringing back confused contradictory dark-side messages. I have voted Liberal before but they are now imitating the pie-in-the-sky platform of the Whacko's and the Commies. Besides, environmental extremists are nauseating....Ixnay to the lefties.       CONSERVATIVES ?..... Why?.... Because I think they will waste my taxdollars in the least objectionable way.   Now to be serious... I like our local (incumbent) MP Mark Warawa over the other candidates. However in most cases my vote would likely be weighted towards the party because the Prime Minister sets the priorities, has most of the clout and controls his cabinet and the issues in our Democratic system. We have seen how Stephen Harper conducted himself in governing on his first trial run, whereby he has become more experienced and polished. I have to give him a passing grade. He seems like a real person, a genuinely decent family man of moral and ethical standards. He understands that without a strong economy all other systems and social services would falter. He is the least likely to sell us out on extreme environmental scams like Carbon Taxes which would ruin the economy. His healthy looking persona-optics for representing us appear good and he conducts himself professional like. He is fluent in both English and French and can represent the entire country. He will try to get the best talent to work for us regardless of party as he did with David Emerson. I think he is capable of riding herd over his MPs to keep them reasonably honest, because they all know he is strong on law and order and likes to portray a good re-electable image.   A final smell test sometimes used is would I invite the candidate in our house. Admittedly, Stephen Harper has kind of grown on me and I have come to like and trust him enough to give him and my local Conservative candidate some more (nylon) rope.    But hey. Politics can be a cruel (in your face-take no prisoners) game. Screw up, let us down and you're history with the absence of an X on the next ballot.    So there, it's decided, relax. Another thing off my mind until Tuesday, October 14, 2008.