Your favourite MP from another party.

[Machjo]

This thread is more for fun, but I would just be curious to see the answers it might get.

Whatever party you usually vote for, please name your favorite MP not from your party of choice.

Starting with myself, though I don't vote party anyway, I have found that the party-affiliation of the candidates I've voted for in the past has usually been Green, though sometimes members of other parties have caught my attention too.

Among the current MPs in Parliament, André Arthur(André Arthur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) and Scott Reid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Reid_(politician))are two I'd likely consider voting for if they were in my riding. Of course I'm not saying I agree with either of them on everything (and certainly don't condone Arthur's offensive rhetoric at times), but do tend to like some of their ideas none-the-less.

So what MP not of the party you would usually vote for (or of a party affiliation that is different from that of candidates you have usually voted for if you don't vote party) do you like or could possibly consider voting for.

I'm guessing this thread will be tough for some to answer.

 

[Colpy]

As far as I'm concerned, the only MPs on the Opposite side of the House worth the powder required to blow them to Hell are Stephane Dion and Ralph Goodale.

 

[Machjo]

As far as I'm concerned, the only MPs on the Opposite side of the House worth the powder required to blow them to Hell are Stephane Dion and Ralph Goodale.

What do you honestly see in those two?

What do you honestly see in those two?

My question was more along the lines of which could you consider possibly voting for. If those two are what you'd consider voting for, I'm shocked, unless there's something about you I don't know?:lol:

 

[Colpy]

What do you honestly see in those two?



My question was more along the lines of which could you consider possibly voting for. If those two are what you'd consider voting for, I'm shocked, unless there's something about you I don't know?:lol:

Actually, I really like Stephane Dion.....as long as he ISN'T PM.

He was outstanding as intergovernmental affairs minister.

And he strikes me as both honest and intelligent.

But he is another Ivory Tower intellectual, without even a big toe in the chilly waters of reality..........and wayyy too left of me.........

 

[Machjo]

Actually, I really like Stephane Dion.....as long as he ISN'T PM.

He was outstanding as intergovernmental affairs minister.

And he strikes me as both honest and intelligent.

But he is another Ivory Tower intellectual, without even a big toe in the chilly waters of reality..........and wayyy too left of me.........

Thanks for the clarification. I suppose he does have some redeeming qualities about him. I thought you were being sarcastic at first.:lol:

 

[JLM]

As far as I'm concerned, the only MPs on the Opposite side of the House worth the powder required to blow them to Hell are Stephane Dion and Ralph Goodale.

Goodale is good, Dion is a joke.

 

[Machjo]

Come to think of it, Colpie, I guess I wouldn't mind him as Intergevernmental Affairs Minister, with perhaps Scott Reid as minister for official bilingualism (I don't know if he knows French, but what the heck, I like his ideas on that front anyway, though I'd like him even more as Provincial Minister of Education in Ontario.

As for Arthur, he doesn't really shine out on any one front in particular, but has some decent ideas at lest overall. So I guess he makes for a good all-round MP in any position, even as a backbench MP, and I don't mean it in a negative sense at all.

I'd read Scott Reid's book Lament for a Notion. I'm sure you can find it in most libraries. Ironically enough, I'd say that his analysis of the problem is flawed at best, but somehow he comes up with wise solutions. I guess it's like the kid doing a math problem, makes a bunch of mistakes along the way in the calculation, but somehow comes up with the right answer or close to it anyway.

It makes for an interesting contrast to Graham Fraser's 'Sorry I don't speak English'. In that book, his analysis of the problem is fairly accurate, but somehow his proposed remedy is way off base. It's like the kid who does everything right till the last calculation and then screws it all up royally because he forgot a decimal point somewhere on the last part.

 

[AnnaG]

Ruby Dhalla. She's got perspective, passion, intelligence, and beauty. You go, grrrl.

Or did you mean local? I can't think of one.

 

[Machjo]

Ruby Dhalla. She's got perspective, passion, intelligence, and beauty. You go, grrrl.

Or did you mean local? I can't think of one.

No worries. My local MP is a flatliner cerebrally speaking.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

No worries. My local MP is a flatliner cerebrally speaking.

Mine too. If I lived a little further east it'd be Ralph Goodale, my favourite MP from another party. I don't often vote Liberal, either federally or provincially, but I'd have voted for him. I know him slightly, he's a decent and honest man with an IQ solidly into 3 digits.

 

[Kreskin]

I don't have A party and am capable of voting for any party. The one I'm least likely to vote for is NDP but if I lived in the New Westminster-Burnaby riding I could vote for Peter Julian.

 

[JLM]

I think political parties should be done away with. They don't mean anything as proven by David Emerson and a few others. All parties have exactly the same priorities, one- getting reelected and two stuffing their own personal pockets and three lasting long enough to get an obscene pension (about 6 years on average) Are there any honourable politicians today? There probably are but they are obscure among the back benches. I think Flaherty and Goodale are probably acceptable, but bear watching of course. :smile:

 

[Machjo]

I think political parties should be done away with. They don't mean anything as proven by David Emerson and a few others. All parties have exactly the same priorities, one- getting reelected and two stuffing their own personal pockets and three lasting long enough to get an obscene pension (about 6 years on average) Are there any honourable politicians today? There probably are but they are obscure among the back benches. I think Flaherty and Goodale are probably acceptable, but bear watching of course. :smile:

Whadda ya mean there are no good politicians out there. Just think of how many good politicians lost last election... oh, you mean ones who actually have power? Sorry, never mind.

 

[Bar Sinister]

Stephen Harper - He is the only person keeping the Conservatives from getting a majority.

 

[Machjo]

Stephen Harper - He is the only person keeping the Conservatives from getting a majority.

Hmmmm.... I was thinking more of looking for positive qualities in an opposition MP, not liking him because he's so bad he's keeping the party down:lol:

 

[JLM]

Whadda ya mean there are no good politicians out there. Just think of how many good politicians lost last election... oh, you mean ones who actually have power? Sorry, never mind.

Sorry, did I say there aren't any?

Stephen Harper - He is the only person keeping the Conservatives from getting a majority.

You don't think David Emerson or Stockboy Day aren't contributing?

 

[Machjo]

Sorry, did I say there aren't any?

My bad. There are plenty of good and honest politicians. It's just that most voters prefer voting for the second-worst of the bunch to keep the worst one out, with all the best ones becoming fringe candidates with not a hope in hell of winning.

Don't you love a strategic-voting democracy where the worst party is guaranteed to stay out of power as long as the second-worst can count on the strategic vote. Ah, God bless democracy.:lol:

 

[Tonington]

In my lifetime, short as it has been thus far, the only politician worth mentioning has been Bill Casey.

 

[lone wolf]

For today, and even though I don't care much for his politics, I'll say Tony Clements for being at the right place at the right time and doing the right thing. He and some neighbours are credited for rescuing a swimmer in the falls at Port Sydney, ON.

 

[earth_as_one]

I'd never vote Conservative. Exception... I'd vote for Finance Minister Jim Flaherty if he was my local MP and Harper was not leader.