Helping the Conservatives

In my surfing of the blogosphere and the news services I've noticed some things. One of which is the ferocity that the opposition parties attack one another. The Liberals attack the Block, NDP and Greens; the NDP attack the Liberals, Greens and Block; and so on. Same in the blogosphere, the Liberal bloggers attack the NDP bloggers and so on. I understand the reasoning, each party and their supporters are trying to steal votes from the other. There's one major problem with all this though. In the oppositions', and their supporters', vigor in trying to trash the other they're unwittingly, or wittingly, providing support to the Conservatives. By attacking each other, these parties are playing into Stephen Harper's hand. There's nothing the Conservatives would love more than the opposition parties attacking each other since if the Liberals and NDP are busy attacking each other, they won't be attacking the Conservatives. Harper has the opposition and it's supporters in the blogosphere doing his own dirty work for him. Though these tactics may gain some soft Liberal/NDP support for the other, it will do nothing to attract the soft Tory vote.

What the opposition parties and their supporters need to do is quit bickering among themselves. If they have the urge to attack, attack the Tories alone. Let the opposition parties' policies speak for themselves and go after the soft Tory vote. The Conservatives are stalled in the polls and with that their votes are ripe for the plucking. These votes won't come over to the opposition if we're too busy slagging ourselves in the House, the press or the blogosphere. Gaining a few extra votes for the Liberals/NDP at the expense of the NDP/Liberals won't make a difference if no votes move from the Tories and that's where we've got to go to get the votes people. If only 10% of the vote moved over, no matter who to, the Tories would be out of office. It is that 10% we need to shift. Not a couple of votes here or there from the anti-Tory forces.

Unfortunately, based on my observations at party meetings and here in the progressive blogosphere, people are too entrenched in their parties to see this. This means that the Tories have us right where they want us, sniping at each other. In actuality we need to be spending all our sniping energy for the common enemy, the Harper Conservatives. Anything else will just help the Tories stay in power.