Well, I'm not as scared of Harper as some - that's a man who loves power, loves being PM, and will do anything to hold onto it, even when that means caving to socialist concerns. In his first election, he muzzled the more right-wing fundies in his own party, and has not let them off-leash since gaining power. I doubt he will through this government, either. I also think, contrary to some, that the man actually does love his country and means well: I just don't often agree with what he thinks is good for the country. I also think he hasn't been very fiscally responsible - the Liberals, astoundingly, seem much better at economics.

I do not want to see an Ignatieff led Liberal party, although it's an outside possibility that making him leader would marginalize the Liberal left so much that it would give the NDP an actual shot at forming government.