msolga wrote:
He may not know it, but he's busy turning himself into a younger Howard. The signs have been building for weeks, but they came to a head last Friday, when Labor announced its tax policy. .....<ont>
It's all about marketing, msolga. Howard had to take onboard several of Pauline Hanson's policies to hold onto the power seat, and now we see him cowtowing to the indigenous "problem", like it has only just popped up or something.
Electioneering is much like retail sales, in that the customer is always right.
That drama with Rudd being seen in a strip joint in the US seemed to pop up out of nowhere, and I wouldn't doubt that it was a fabrication from Rudd's PR team.
Politics has become even grubbier and nastier than it was in the Hawke/Keating era, so the liberals (how elastic has that word become?) took the baton, and raised the bar again.
Simply put, the divide between left and right on the political sphere has become so blurred, that the swinging voter usually makes their final decision on the actual day of voting, and both parties are aware of this.
Personally, I think the Rudd team would make a go of it, but Howard should be put back in to face the music over the next five interest rises.
His last-minute offer of $34B over the next five years, the reconciliation issue, the housing shortage for the poor, the destabilisation of the family unit through economic hardship due to to both parents having to work, will come back to bite him on the rump.
I'd prefer to watch him backpedalling until he gives up, a la Peter Beattie, rather than Rudd's team of noobs having to struggle with the mess left behind by the liberals.
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