What's the point of a progressive Conservative party if it is no different from the Liberal Party?  I guess it matters to politicians who want the perks and privileges of power, but I fail to see how the rest of us would be served.  Surely an enduring lesson from the Mulroney years is that Conservatives who talk a great line, while destroying the country's finances, eventually lose their base.  Better for the country if the Conservatives present a coherent, cogent alternative to the socialist mess offered by the Liberals.