What is the point of this story?

I needed a post

And since the Journal seems to have decided not to run it, I'll just show y'all my most recent letter to the editor (a little stale now, since it was written about a week and a half ago):

This fear of Conservative governments has gone quite far enough.

Insofar as the cliched old political spectrum is useful, I am well left of centre. I like my taxes high, my gay marriages legal, my international environmental accords implemented, and my foreign policies ethical. On national unity, I consider myself a Trudeauiste. In short, the Conservatives' beliefs are anathema to me. However, if
the next government's to be another minority one (and it is) I would far prefer a Conservative minority to a Liberal one.

Will a Conservative minority government gut our social safety net? Will it run roughshod over gay rights? Not without the cooperation of another party in the Commons, it won't. The Bloc, being as it is full of socialists and led by a former Marxist-Leninist, won't provide that cooperation. Neither will the New Democrats. Several Liberals – your Tom Wappels and your Pat O'Briens – might do so on gay marriage (and what does this indicate about Liberals who hold up their party as the
defender of gay rights?). The Conservatives kowtow to provincial governments and flirt with separatists, but no more that Paul Martin has done with his succession of federal-provincial deals and appointment of Jean Lapierre as his Québec lieutenant, respectively; if the Conservatives' plan on national unity is a recipe for disaster,
so is the Liberals' (and the New Democrats', for that matter).

What a Conservative government will accomplish in its undoubtedly brief tenure will be the infusion of some new energy in our governing process, a (temporary) end to the sort of cynical politics practiced by any party that's been in power for more than a decade uninterrupted (hello, Ralph Klein), an abandonment of the embarrassing flip-floppery perfected by Paul Martin, and the eradication of a few totally
unnecessary spending programs.

I likely won't be voting either Liberal or Conservative during the next election, but it seems to me that if one or the other has to form a government, the Conservatives are a much better bet.