DITTO!

And me too....

Steve Edwards blogs about the latest Newspoll on the standing of the federal parties and their respective leaders. I agree with pretty well everything Steve says, especially this paragraph:

The ALP is behind by two-percent in the two-party preferred stakes. This doesn't sound bad. But it is. Regardless of the fact that Howard led this country to a war that a minority initially supported, apparently could not retrospectively justify this war, and has fudged the truth on a number of occasions, the ALP has not pulled ahead at any stage. Indeed, the ALP has either been around the level of support it attracted at the last federal election, or drastically behind. And two-party preferred says nothing about the rural and regional marginals...where elections are won and lost now. This is all despite the fact that the current government is old, fairly tired, and becoming increasingly repetitive. The current government has surely undermined the universality of Medicare. The current government has (although it deserves praise for some of its higher education agenda) under-spent on R&D and higher education. Indeed, the Howard Government is stumbling from blunder to blunder, offending the electorate in many of its key concerns, and the Labor Party has not once even looked like a competitor.

There are many ways to create new blog posts without writing anything yourself, and this has been one of them. Thanks Steve!

Yep. Thanks Steve. And Ken.

Bold Prediction - Labor's chip-chip tactics WILL win them the next election. But not with Crean at the helm.

Comments

[Scarlet]

I find myself unable to vote for a Government which has Tony Abbott in it. I think what he did stinks.

I bet I'm not the only one feeling this way, so you may yet be correct. The ALP won't get my vote, however.

[os]

Tony Abbot did the right thing and he did it properly.
Pauline was a false messiah as far as policies go and she headed an illegal process.
The voters realised then voted on the first, a jury found the second.
Tony Abbot openly established a fund to assist both findings and the outcome has vindicated him.
He'd make a bloody good Prime Minister.

[Tony.T]

I like Abbott. I don't like Labor.

I'm also a Victorian, and one of the few to predict the Libs would lose in 1999. Vic Labor's groundswell of gripe through 1998 and 1999 is similar to the one being waged now by Fed Labor. There are differences between the two, the main being a lack of an inoffensive leader to replace Crean, but my spider-sense is tingling in the same way it did back then.

[os]

Hmmm, if I'd like him to be PM, I'd beter learn to spel his name .... "Abbott".

[Tony.T]

I nearly wrote "and better", then I saw "spel". Now I get it. Quick, me.

[os]

heh, nearly gotcha. I'm lightning Tony, but yep, you're too quick for me! Go Eags. "out in one", pshaw.

[Tony.T]

Out. In. One. Got a nice ring to it, Os. Think I might sing it again. La La La - Out. In. One. - Yeah Yeah.

[os]

Pissorff. Go Eags. Boyoboyoboy ... I can't wait.

[Toryhere]

The ALP has no ideas. The Howard Coalition government is by far the best government we've had since Menzies. The whole point is that modern Governments don't need to DO anything, but get the hell out of the way. The ALP only believes in Governemnt by pressure group and half educated pseudo-intellectual lefties who can only work in the public sector, as no private company would employ them.

[Sedgwick]

"chip-chip"? ... all I can see is "bunker-bunker".

We "want to be born again ALP supporters" don't need no freakin' kiss of death predictions. The ALP is capable of running on its own fatal osculation without outside intervention.

Now young fella-me-chicken entrails examiner, who are you suggesting should/will be at the helm of the Marie Celeste?

[Tony.T]

Os - ....for next year. Both. Out. In. one. After the inglorious western weekend I might add - Lucky. To. Be. There.

Tory There - It's not about ideas, they're both right-wing conservative parties. It's about whether Labor can make enough noise (some warranted, some made-up, all hypocritical) to fatally discredit the government. If Labor then gets in they they'll do exactly the same as the Libs and then the Libs will have no comeback for the next ten years. It's what's happened here in Braxtoria.

The real question is whether Carr takes the helm. Labor can't win with Crean, but they're a massive chance with Right-Wing Bob.

Sedge - Was that Kiss-Of-Death enough for you Sedge? Me old safari suited True Believer.

[Sedgwick]

"Sideshow Bob".

[Tony.T]

Hee Hee.