Starting off with a CCRAPy idea

I love writing articles. I get to make up witty titles. Okay this one's probably been used. I'm a little late but in the past few weeks (while I was writing words about words).

Anyway, the path to uniting the right began with a convention. Where they narrowed their name to a final winner: the Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance party whose acronym is CCRAP. Alright, I know some people aren't too bright but come on, this is just too funny to be true. Anyway, so the people at the United Alternative convention earlier on, decided that it was the name, and acronym, they though was good to describe their party. First honest politicians, that's got to be a plus for them.

Anyway, if you are not familiar with the UA it is very simple: the Federal Progressive Conservative Party is low when it comes to winning seats since Kim Campbell was Prime Minister and the Reform party, although very popular in the West, is not so well liked in the East. So, to solve the problem, they decided to join forces and unite the right mainly although they deny anything to do with the left-right-centre spectrum, which they judge outdated. It all started in may of 1998, when Reform leader Preston Manning invited people from different parties to join him to discus a UNITED ALTERNATIVE! In February of 1999 (wow a whole year ago) a convention in Ottawa was held to put in place the groundwork for the UA. In late January of 2000, another convention created the new CCRA party who didn't realise that someone was going to notice when it spells out crap.

But that isn't the only problem of the Canadian Alliance, as it is called. The CCRA party, who's supposed to unite the right, is splitting reform as grassroots reformers don't want to change the party's policies and structure but other reformers, like leader, Preston Manning, want to "think big".

Although they have fixed the first problem by switching adjectives Reform and Conservative to form the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance party (CRCAP), the other one is still a problem. In fact if 67% of Reformer votes aren't for the morphing of the reform party into the Canadian Alliance then this whole plan to be voted into the east will die to the pleasure of diehard reformers although some reformers originally opposed to the project have switched.

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