I'm going to put it in writing here and now.
I don't mind Brendan Nelson.
Yes, I know, it's a shocking thing to say. But if you read his stuff, read about his "listening tours", and so forth gone is the repellent free market is king, nig nogs should shut up, brown people are evil, generally blinkered unpleasant hard right crap that the Liberal party had been infected with under Howard et al.
Nelson, for all his faults, is actually interested in helping others. The focus on his leadership thus far is social justice type stuff. Sure - his nattering to the banks about 'won't someone please think of the reposessors' was mentally challenged (he had to know that would get out), but I'd rather a Liberal leader faff on about families doing it tough and all that guff than retarded 'let's get TEH MUZZIES' and 'gays cannot get married', or even 'children love razor wire' shit the previous government had.
I'd say the reason Nelson's approval is so low is because he's not presenting a credible alternative in terms of ideology. He and Rudd are essentially on the same page for a bunch of stuff. So why go Rudd-lite?
How ironic that the two leader contenders in the Libs, Turnbull and Nelson, were wets in disguise and the morons left were forced to choose between them? All these years of tamping down their feelings on not fucking people over as a political tool must have eaten at them.
There's a reason Nelson flirted with the ALP (and was a member of them for many years). Because the values he shares are similar. A fair go, a helping hand, a leg up.
So how nice is it to hear a member of one of the most unpleasant governments we've experienced in modern Australian politics actually come out and say stuff like 'let's look after carers' (though admittedly the later was because of an Oz lead charge political effort to try and make Labor look heartless).
Remember people it could be worse. It could be Julie "Vampira" Bishop or Tony "People Skills" Abbott leading the charge.
PS Nelson however could do with more assistance on the publicity front.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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I agree it could be worse- it's not that long since we had John Howard, after all. But this:
There's a reason Nelson flirted with the ALP (and was a member of them for many years). Because the values he shares are similar. A fair go, a helping hand, a leg up.
- I just can't agree with you. Nelson basically did a Malcolm Turnbull and picked the side he thought would bring him the most power in the shortest time. Remember- he went to the Libs because they were willing to parachute him into a safe seat when Labor weren't. There's his motivation- it's about what's in it for him.
That is true of course. He did make a pragmatic Vs ideological choice.
BUT
He's not a right wing heartless fucktward. And I have to say I like that about him.
I think you just like the fact that he's not Tony Abbott... because compared with some of the rest of them he does look damn good.
I like him best because his presence as leader means there's going to be more in-party joustling and turmoil before they turf him out, which will hopefully benefit Kevin Rudd.
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