For the purpose of having something to hang a new open thread off, I hereby present unilluminating 15-second ads for the Liberal candidates for Stirling and Cowan, which ran during Perth news bulletins this evening.
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If a dimwhit like Dana Vaille can get elected to parliament, there’s hope for Nicole Cornes.
It appears to be Brian Loughnane’s current strategy – hit and fade missions, where Ministers make big splashes (Abbott, Downer, Turnbull for a while and now Hockey) and then *bammo* they’re gone again!
Dave55,
You might have a point there (both about shutting PJK up, and about LL!)
Broadband is a massive issue everywhere – even in inner Melbourne, where, by the way, it’s fairly sh$#e. It’s like building railways last century. For business poeple it’s a serious big deal. Not to mention education.
Q: When is “sorry” not an apology?
A: When Howard says it.
His lawyer-speak is going to go down real well with Joe & Mary Bogan. No doubt they’ll recall that the PM makes no apologies about it when the notice from the bank comes in with their new mortgage rate.
I reckon he’s sounding more and more like Billy McMahon with each passing day.
Adam you that if she wins she’ll end up a 1 termer as will probably happen to Fergi in Bass.
I’ve a couple of rumours suggesting there’s a fair swing against Smirky in Higgins. It wouldn’t look good for Costello’s leadership ambitions if his seat becomes as marginal as Bennelong or Wentworth.
showson- put it this way- I’m glad I don’t vote in Boothby, I would also find it difficult.
Adam, I hope you are right but I’m talking to a lot of pissed off swinging voters who really hate Nicole. The Advertiser has really done a hatchet job on her. Sturt will go before Boothby.
Keating wouldn’t change one vote.
In 83, the LIbs ad campaign, was Don’t trust the ALP, It’s another Whitlam Show. (or something like that – I was only 11!)
Whitlam was as divisive as Keating, but after 11 years. Geex, everyone knows he’s not running for PM, and if you haven’t heard interest rates went to 17% under him, well go back under your rock.
But who do you trust to deliver that message BV and Glen?
re 139: Broadmand and technology are huge issues. Overseas students wonder what’s wrong. Some years ago my sister-in-law taught at a Chinese University. Took video tapes of Shakespeare with her as that was the norm here. They had to find a VCR in archives or equivalent. This illustrates where we are still stuck today.
Also Rudd tonight praised Fisher, Curtin , Hawke and Keating!! For economic reform. And contrasted Howard Costello as being asleep at the wheel!
I seriously think DP at the DT has been slowly been shifting the vibe. I reckon Howard’s performance today is the final reason they need to break cover and switch to Rudd. I never thought I’d see the day. I wonder if Rudds visit with uncle Rupe in the US involved something along the lines of “you deliver FTTN and well back you in”?
If you asked the swinging voters to choose between tax cuts now and broadband in the future, they’d take the money every time.
Interest rate rises on the other hand, now that’s an issue. But the question is what’s the best way for Labor to exploit it?
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Marktwain Says:
November 8th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Kev’s tie looks like a Vicks vapour drop.”
Having a bad hair day are we, Sammy? You know, for a sobriqueted sep of letters that shot is so totally lame. You wanna move it on up to some serious satire and leave the cotton-candy stuff to the amateurs and arrivistes, orwot?
Diogenes Says:
November 8th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Get real she has a law degree.
Did anyway hear on ABC PM today that Howard was claiming that under his government there will always be more fertility and less divorce? WTF… So the Rodent is now trying to say that if Rudd gets in everyone is gonna stop having kids and head for the divorce courts… Could someone please confiscate Howards dementia drugs, cos it is becoming quite sad.
Howard Hater 104.
Yes, I heard the piece on Nicole. I posted some threads ago, the Messenger front pager on her. Seems there is a gathering of sympathy, which includes Brighton Secondary, clearly.
There has been more in her favour, Advertiser recently.
Won’t be easy, however, as I have said earlier too, the understandably (labor) antagonists to her selection, have decided to run with her.
Yes, the government’s new policy is “Going For Growth in Sperm Counts”.
Mad Cow,
That reminds me, did anyone else hear Howard dribble (reported on PM) about fertility rates (among other things) going down if Labor gets in? WTF. What is he on? While I kinda get the point he was trying to make, most people won’t understand and it just sounds like a wacky scare campaign (by which I mean even wackier than usual). Cossie must be kicking himself daily for not challenging last year.
Charles@166. No she hasn’t. She’s still studying for one. And there are plenty of brain-dead lawyers.
Any links to back up your claims?
Can someone please tell me how they convinced the Farmers Federation to spend money promoting Liberal Party policy at the expense of the better interests of their own members. I speak about broadband policy.
Dave55, When Costello hears Howard going on about birth rates, he must be kicking himself daily for not having the balls to challenge him last year.
What is going on with Howard, is he Sleep Talking, hopefully no one wakes him up until about 7.30PM on the 24/11/2007, so he can make his last political speech.
Grog, Evidently it doesn’t hurt as much if you don’t have balls…
Grog can’t you accept that Costello isn’t yellow, if you were in his shoes had about 15 out of every Liberal Party MPs in Parliament would you really challenge the PM???
I don’t think he’s yellow, i think he’s a realist.
Neilsen is usually published in Fairfax papers.
If it’s out tomorrow, can we expect it on websites tonight? And if so, what time?
Dave55, no I missed that but it wouldn’t surprise me. What was his pseudo-argument?
Btw, I think a lower birth rate would be a good thing, for a number of reasons.
Glen neither you nor I have the slightest idea what will happen in 2010.
charles @ 166,
Based on some of the interactions I’ve had with lawyers, I’m not totally convinced that a law degree is proof of braininess …
But that’s a little beside the point anyway with Nicole Cornes. She’s become (not entirely through her own fault) a bit of a “soft target” for some of the press. You know, it’s a slow news day, let’s pick out some silly thing she said this week.
I’m sure she’s not a bimbo but I reckon she will underperform the overall Adelaide swing.
Aren’t all liberal supporters limp lettuces and their “members” as such. Fertility can’t possibly be improved by them!
Howard is getting Tabitha to do his speech writing.
Costello didn’t, hasn’t and never will have the balls to challenge for anything. He is singulary the most pathetic excuse for a human ever to grace parliament. I think Turnbull will hold on in Wentworth and lead the Liberals to the next election. Turnbull is their future.
BTW my sources say regional Qld is going ballistic with the National party and are feed up with them being the spare wheel to the Libs. Apparently there will be a big coalition dust up by mid next week with the Nats distancing themselves from Howard.
No 101
It it is interesting Adam that you call the local approach of the Liberals “disgraceful” because they aren’t technically responsible for local issues, yet you are quite happy to support Mr Rudd’s “plan” to take over public hospitals.
You can’t have it both ways.
“Grog can’t you accept that Costello isn’t yellow, if you were in his shoes had about 15 out of every Liberal Party MPs in Parliament would you really challenge the PM???”
If Costello had challenged after the secret ‘deal’, middle of last year, lost, then gone to the backbench, around feb/march with no able deputy, polls bad, backbenchers wold have come round.
No but still Adam, chances are if Rudd isn’t PM by 2010 he probably will win in 2010, if the Tories are beaten this year it’s fairly likely bar being a Scullin that he’ll win in 2010.
AM LOL
Rudd just said ”Restoration of Westminster” which gets my vote (after preferences of course) – watching Howard go about his handiwork has been like watching an episode of “Yes Minister” on Bizarro world.
but the man has NO BALLS
“Do you want to risk the progress we have made as a society off the back of a strong economy? A society where more and more Australians are moving from welfare to work? A society that for all of the disadvantages that still exists directs more support in relative terms to those on low incomes than virtually any other developed country in the world? A more confident and stable society as indicated by measures or indicators like _higher fertility, lower divorce rates_ and lower numbers of children growing up in jobless households.”
Incidentally, in the same speech Howard demonstrated one reason why interest rates and inflation are increasing under the current government.
“If Mr Rudd were of a mind to check the facts he would find that the mining sector now employs far more people working in research, innovation and other knowledge based industries than it does in actually digging up dirt.’’
He doesn’t seem to understand if we had a higher level of research and development we would have higher productivity, and thus lower inflation and interest rates.
Howard is so lame in his declining years that he presents speeches that demonstrate his failings.
Charles says: “Get real she has a law degree…”
Sorry Charles, but, ahem…… I know plenty of cretins with law degrees and practising certificates.
They’re just bits of paper. They don’t make you sensible.
Glen, I think if he had challenged last year, gone to the back bench, he would be PM now, and every announcement he makes would sound so damn new and exciting (and economically sensible) that the polls would be 53-47 in the LIbs favour.
I agree he doesn’t have the numbers – but he still only wants to be given power.
I mean, geez, you’d think the guy has never watched The Godfather!!
Let It End, I hope Kev was wearing knee pads (gulp).
Gosh, EC, that wasn’t very nice. Did I steal your bucket from the sandpit this morning?
mad cow, something to do with less money, working more, can’t afford kids. At least that’s what I think he meant but he didn’t really articulate it that way. Higher divorce rates were in there as well. I was waiting for him to allege that there would be less white picket fences as well but he must have overlooked that one.
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middle man Says:
Don’t know, but given the results from past Liberal smear campaigns I expect a 2% swing to labor.
With enough effort the Liberals can bring my bet of 105 seats to labor home for me.
So you all reckon Rupert is going to give us the all clear to vote for Rudd! Gee, we had better get on our knees to give thanks.
What’s Dessicated going on about with fertility rates and divorces? I think Jannette had better start looking for a suitable nursing home. LOL
Hey there mad cow et al, did you happen on my broadband update at 19?
Keating didn’t have the numbers against Hawke either, which is why he went to the backbench, remember? And then he said to Caucus, you can win with me or lose with him, take your pick. And lo, they chose, and chose wisely. That’s what Costello would have done if he wasn’t such a chicken. As Neville Wran said, you don’t get anything in politics without wading through blood to get it. That’s why Cosello will never be PM.
AM it is called the last death rolls of a man on his last breathe of political air, kicking and screaming ‘it wasn’t me’ who was PM for the last 11 years, it was the Unions, vote for me and I promise to be exorcised and keep puberty low’.
He is an embarresment as PM and has been for some time: thank God he is short enough and useless enough to have been ignored overseas for most of his tenure and people will not remember he was our Prime Minister, at all. I certainly will welcome amnesia when it comes my way for that very reason first and foremost.
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