Running Amok A Little More

Mandos responds to a post of mine by falsly attributing that I dislike Jack Layton not because he supported corruption, but because I'm angry at him for preventing the Liberal government from falling. At risk of boring readers, all I will say is that while I am angry that the Liberal government fell 6 months later than it should, that is not my reason for being angry at Jack Layton. It is possible for me to be both angry that the Liberal government survived and to be disgusted at Jack Layton willingness to support corruption. Though I'm sure there is no convincing Mandos who's decided for me what my motives are already.

As well, Mandos remarks

If [the N.D.P. members] don't behave like Normal Politicians, some people don't consider them a serious party. And if they do, then people like Mustafa Hirji don't consider them to be a party worth voting for. And that's far more worth worrying about than the failure of the Liberals to fall on the sponsorship scandal, which so apparently disappoints Mustafa.

I actually agree with Mandos on the worrying absence of anyone worth voting for. I find myself in the irritating position of wanting to vote against every candidate in my riding. In reflection of this, over the past week, I believe I have criticized the Conservatives, the Liberals, the N.D.P., and the Greens. Of course, just because I criticize Paul Martin and Jack Layton more than Stephen Harper and Jim Harris, Mandos has decided for me that I only dislike Martin and Layton. (The real reason that I pick on those two more is that fighting government corruption is the most important issue to me, and because Martin and Layton are easy targets and I'm intellectually lazy.)