In Defense...
It seems to be pretty fashionable to defend the presence of the Blogging Tories blogroll on the side of people's blogs, and so I'll follow suit and offer up a defense.
Before I start let me mention how we in Canada are slightly unfortunate to have the name of the Conservative party as the "Conservative Party". Let me explain that.
In America, principled conservatives can throw off the title of a "Republican" very easily by simply saying that they're "principled conservatives" who vote for the Republicans because the Republicans are the more conservative party. Does that make sense? They could make the case that they're not party hacks and instead vote their best interests. There are many Republicans who ARE party hacks and will stay Republican even if the Republicans hypothetically become a more liberal party sometime in the future, but the principled conservative type will simply vote in the best interests of themselves or of their nation, regardless of party politics. That's the example that I hope to follow.
However, in Canada, it really sucks because when someone accuses me of supporting something just because the "Conservatives" do, I have no defense. What am I supposed to say? "Yeah... I only support them because I'm a conservative"?
Anyways, I've gone slightly off topic. I had two reasons for joining the CPC supporting blogroll.
Firstly, I really don't like having the Liberals in power. I think Paul Martin is a spineless joke. I think he's a good guy, but just hopelessly gutless. I would prefer a "Conservative Party" government even though I don't agree with the Conservatives on every issue. Well actually, I probably do agree with them on almost every issue, but I don't agree with how forceful they are on individual issues, but I can understand their reasons. Will I always support the Conservative party? Probably, but that's not definitely the case. It was probably in Canada's best interests to have the Liberals elected in 1993 in order to smash the deficit. It’s harder for conservatives to do "necessary" hard things because they don't often have the political capital, while the Liberals can usually get away with it because they're Liberals... and Canadians are comfortable with the belief that the Liberals aren't evil right-wingers who only cut the healthcare budget because they hate poor people and minorities. If I wasn't 6 years old at the time, it would've probably made sense for me to have hoped for a Liberal government. (The PCs needed to get thrown out at the time, and Reform was probably too inexperienced to run a government)
The second reason is because of that TTLB Ecosystem thing. Most people will have no idea what I’m talking about. On the side of my blog, there’s a little message that identifies me as an “Adorable Little Rodent” which is a mid-level ranking in the TTLB blogger ecosystem. The ecosystem’s rankings are based on the number of incoming links from other blogs. Well, umm, yeah. I joined so my ranking would go up 4000 spots and… it did! I have no idea why I care, but I do.
Before I start let me mention how we in Canada are slightly unfortunate to have the name of the Conservative party as the "Conservative Party". Let me explain that.
In America, principled conservatives can throw off the title of a "Republican" very easily by simply saying that they're "principled conservatives" who vote for the Republicans because the Republicans are the more conservative party. Does that make sense? They could make the case that they're not party hacks and instead vote their best interests. There are many Republicans who ARE party hacks and will stay Republican even if the Republicans hypothetically become a more liberal party sometime in the future, but the principled conservative type will simply vote in the best interests of themselves or of their nation, regardless of party politics. That's the example that I hope to follow.
However, in Canada, it really sucks because when someone accuses me of supporting something just because the "Conservatives" do, I have no defense. What am I supposed to say? "Yeah... I only support them because I'm a conservative"?
Anyways, I've gone slightly off topic. I had two reasons for joining the CPC supporting blogroll.
Firstly, I really don't like having the Liberals in power. I think Paul Martin is a spineless joke. I think he's a good guy, but just hopelessly gutless. I would prefer a "Conservative Party" government even though I don't agree with the Conservatives on every issue. Well actually, I probably do agree with them on almost every issue, but I don't agree with how forceful they are on individual issues, but I can understand their reasons. Will I always support the Conservative party? Probably, but that's not definitely the case. It was probably in Canada's best interests to have the Liberals elected in 1993 in order to smash the deficit. It’s harder for conservatives to do "necessary" hard things because they don't often have the political capital, while the Liberals can usually get away with it because they're Liberals... and Canadians are comfortable with the belief that the Liberals aren't evil right-wingers who only cut the healthcare budget because they hate poor people and minorities. If I wasn't 6 years old at the time, it would've probably made sense for me to have hoped for a Liberal government. (The PCs needed to get thrown out at the time, and Reform was probably too inexperienced to run a government)
The second reason is because of that TTLB Ecosystem thing. Most people will have no idea what I’m talking about. On the side of my blog, there’s a little message that identifies me as an “Adorable Little Rodent” which is a mid-level ranking in the TTLB blogger ecosystem. The ecosystem’s rankings are based on the number of incoming links from other blogs. Well, umm, yeah. I joined so my ranking would go up 4000 spots and… it did! I have no idea why I care, but I do.
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