Suddenly, CPC Twitter goes silent.. hmmmm..

Many have been saying that this is an election about "nothing".. the "Seinfeld Election" some have called it.

But I'm starting to see the election as pretty informative, problem is - what I'm learning is making it a little more difficult to decide if I even want to vote at all.

Why would I blaspheme so.. here in the political blogosphere?

Well, it's starting to look a little like there is not one single deserving party to support in this election.

To begin with, I'll level my sights at the party I have been supporting - the Conservatives.  They've done a pretty credible job keeping the Canadian ship afloat, slow and steady through some pretty treacherous waters these past few years - but then, doing nothing to get in the way of the slowly growing economy isn't all that difficult when you're a minority government.

But let's give them credit.

On the other hand.

Through the election to this point, what I have seen from our noble Conservative machine is a lot of ankle-biting about where Ignatieff voted or didn't vote, where his family originally came from - but not a whole lot of adult talk about what distinguishes the Liberals from the Conservative.

Worse - yesterday, there was a barrage of tweets from Conservatives who couldn't say enough about the Ignatieff foreign voting gaff, and then, when suddenly - the disclosures come out regarding the Fraser report on the G8 spending..  the silence from the twitter masters in the PC Party is deafening.

For example:

@kenneyjason

If Mr. Ignatieff says he never voted in a US election, why did he tell a reporter he would do so?

@Rob_Harvie

@kenneyjason Trust Iggy.. not. But, what say you respecting the Sheila Fraser report on G8 spending? Were we feathering our own nest?

The response?  **chirp chirp**

Likewise, twitter fiend, Tony Clement also was on the Ignatieff ankle-biting bandwagon:

@TonyclementCPC


RT @InklessPW Nobody should underestimate the queasiness many voters feel over Ignatieff's past vagueness about his national allegiance....



@Rob_Harvie


@TonyclementCPC some are feeling a little queasiness over the suggestions in the Fraser Report respecting spending. Comments?

Again - the response?  **chirp chirp**

Worse, when the dust settles a little bit, and someone comes forth from the PC Party to give a response, what do we get?  The party comes out and essentially does a cut and paste of comments made by Sheila Fraser respecting the Liberal response to 9/11 and pass it off as a comment respecting the Conservative management of the G8/G20 conference.

What do you make of all of this?

Are we truly that partisan that we are happy to look the other way in the face of what appears to be gross misuse of our tax dollars by a party that we expect to be fiscally conservative?  Are we really going to look the other way in the face of what appears to be either the worst sort of dishonesty - attributing comments to Sheila Fraser relating to something that happened years ago, and trying to pass them off as relating to the matters in issue today, or are we to believe that the Conservatives are not dishonest - but merely galactically stupid?  It's a dilemma, isn't it?  And only the most strident partisans are going to say, "No big deal"..

It truly is one stupid thing after the other.  From Bev Oda and her brutal soft-shoe over the changes to the funding for KAIROS, now to this "accidental" use of the Fraser quote and the continuing non-response to the allegations of spending millions of our tax dollars for what appears to be purely partisan purposes (can you say Adscam?) the goings on in the Conservative caucus are truly starting to stink.

I'll tell you what.  I'll withhold final judgment until the debate.  I will expect that there will be some indication of why we needed to spend the money that appears to have been thrown away in Tony Clement's riding.  But if I do not receive some reasonable explanation - I am very unlikely to vote Conservative come election day.

And I suspect I may not be alone.

Now - then - will I vote for Michael Ignatieff's party?

Not in your life.  The fact that the Fraser Report was leaked, no doubt, by Liberal insiders, smells just as bad as anything attributed to the Conservatives.   The ongoing promises of billions of dollars in new spending, with almost no thought being given as to where those funds are coming from - other than corporate tax increases, that have no chance of creating revenue anywhere close to what the Liberals suggest they will is just a recipe for economic slow-down, and continuation of the liberal vision of utopia where those who work will get to pay more for those who don't.

My vote may not be cast this election.

Not that it matters, perhaps, in Alberta.. but, unless the party I support starts actually displaying something approaching integrity and intelligence, I'm not going to park a vote with a party "just because".

Message to the Conservative Party - it's time to end this amateur night version of a campaign and to start showing some leadership.  Or not only will you not get that majority you pine for, you may find you wake up the day following the election to Prime Minister Ignatieff.