The Conservatives under Harper presented themselves as cleaner than clean . Instead they produced handbooks  on how to subvert committee meetings and blame it on the opposition, the In and Out fundraising scandal, the Robo calls scandal, Dean del Maestros stint in jail ,the appointment of Arthur Porter and his oversight of the security file , and to the Senate of bag men and hacks- and Mike Duffy who was the chief fundraiser for the CPC while on the taxpayers dime in the Senate There were ,many other questionable issues. 

Fundraising which according to Stockwell Day and others was the same under the CPC as Liberals was never referenced yet under the Liberals it  suddenly became "Cash for Access".

The excuse by the press for going after the Liberals for legal actions suggested by the ethics commissioner while ignoring  the same actions by the Conservatives for years  is that the Liberals had  declared they  would do better- as though the Conservatives had not said the same thing