Cadman as wake up call

I got up this morning, had a nice nice cup of coffee and then went to work. I think I should have stayed in bed.

Who the hell is the brain surgeon that thought offering Chuck Cadman a million dollar life insurance policy in exchange for a vote against a Liberal budget was a good idea? Cadman's loss of the Conservative nomination was embarrassing enough but this is utterly disgusting. Cadman was a Reformer and maybe some people in the current Conservative Party of Canada had better remember why Reform was so successful in the West. We must not allow the corruption, dirty tricks, and unethical behaviour of the old PCs (or the Liberals, for that matter) to creep back in to this party. I, for one, want a clean government, one that wins or loses based on policy and on effective communication of that policy. Frankly, the communication strategy of the CPC leaves me frustrated but I will allow that maybe I'm just not the master strategist and the CPC knows something I don't. What I won't allow is this kind of crude bribery. If this is the new CPC I will look somewhere else to vote.

Clean this mess up, now.

A quick update:

I read Jeff Jedras' post and aside from the hypocritical criticism of vote buying I was especially shocked that the pride some Liberal supporters take in their party's ability to do this kind of disgusting crap with finesse. I responded to one comment and re-post it below.

"...as they might have not been so dumb as to crudely offer money. Geez just because the Tories have a proclivity for being ham-handed and dumb doesn't make it the industry standard.

Yeah, the Liberals are much more discreet in their offers of "comfy fur". All one need do is look at the Blonde Bimbo becoming the Minister of "complex files".

What was offered to Cadman is utterly disgusting but I think we Conservatives can handle it without too much advice from the party of Shawinigate and Adscam. In fact, I am kind of tickled that such skullduggery is so foreign to us new Conservatives that we don't have the skill to do it with Liberal finesse and nuance. I am also very proud that a Reformer stuck to his ethics in the face of his own death and told the bastards to get the hell out. That's the kind of party I supported in Reform, something I don't thing many Liberal MPs would have had the balls to do. If we need to clean up some of the old guard, we will. We've done it once already.