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.
Reflections on the Miracle of Democracy at Work in the Greatest Nation on Earth
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Scorpio, the Trolloli ‘Major National News’ was mentioned, I think.
Will she stand as a Lib or Independent?
248 – Agree
Why should we vote Liberal?
Because Kevin Rudd eats his own ear wax.
Wonderful…
Cheer up, Kina.
She may be at a hustings near you.
A little light relief.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4zmwqbBKYY
Stirton saying Rudd has full support of baby boomers.
What the Papers say.
Crikey Whitey Says: @ 251
Good one! lol
Just watched Rudd on Lateline. He had an absolute shocker. I guess he has the flu……
Thommo,
You would say that wouldn’t you?
What is it about gold shirts?
Get used to it, he’s going to be P.M. for at least 6 years.
Was that the interview with Downer and the revealing gold silk shirt?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xUy2inkGHQ – the next Tory PM of the UK, tears Brown to shreds in the House of Commons.
It’s a good gold shirt.
Was that the interview with Downer and the revealing gold silk shirt?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xUy2inkGHQ – the next Tory PM of the UK, tares Brown to shreds in the House of Commons.
More sorry not apologising. W (tf) The Papers Say. Fin Review.
That’s the one.
And the previous night she had one that was federation blue.
Yes Greens im an honest guy. If you think he performed well your kidding yourself.
Showson last time I checked the election was still two weeks away. In other words the fat lady isn’t even at the opera yet.
ShowsOn didn’t he get caught taking a peak? lol!
Glen,
Fantastic, you are drooling over Alexander Downer.
Others here are talking about Leigh Sayles.
Says everything, really.
Oh.
Glen. John Hewson?
Evan at 155:
How very inclusive of you. You’re as ay-leetest as Howard.
Greeensborough Growler the interview where Leigh wore the gold shirt was with Downer, get serious mate!
She’s there, but just having a nap.
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Marktwain Says:
November 8th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Gosh, EC, that wasn’t very nice. Did I steal your bucket from the sandpit this morning?”
Yes, it was rather nasty, Sammy. However, you did take the liberty of casting sartorial aspersions upon my preferred PM.
And for your late night delectation, my latest update from Lib HQ, via my old mate in Oz. (posted on the Newspolls thread earlier)
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VoterBoy of Over the Water Says:
November 8th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Ok, just got off the phone to my Lib staffer mate. Oddly a slightly more optimistic tone than last week, although he things Howard’s latest gaffe was a disaster.
Comments… “we are closing the gap”
“Here’s the story – the vote is around 46-54, or 47-53. There’s 10-15% undecided and they’re breaking 70% our way.
“But all these f*ck-ups keep occurring.”
He then launched into an amazing attack on Howard’s sorry-not sorry comments.
“We had a whole strategy, the Tsunami strategy, to deal with this. He’s says he’s sorry – we get blanket coverage. Now he’s not sorry – so we’re going to get blanket headlines on that! The senior strategy team must be saying ‘we’re f*cked”.
I asked who the team was – he said Loughnane, Ted Horton (sp?) and Tony Nutt. I asked whether they’d tried to rein him in. “You know what Howard’s like,” he said. “He gets crabby and cranky and stubborn.”
“I wouldn’t say it’s over – and we’ve come back to where we were last November, which is the best we’ve been since Rudd took over, but we keep being derailed by the blow-ups. Rudd’s plane’s just landed and he’s tearing us to pieces…”
And then my slightly more reflective follow-up:
1145
VoterBoy of Over the Water Says:
November 8th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Lefty E, Grog, et al,
You know I’ve been thinking more about our conversation since I posted it and I think I might have misrepresented the tone. I think that the 70% and closing gap references were rhetorical. He started out with these “facts”, and then launched into this bitter attack on cranky old Howard f*cking up all the hard work of others. He was laughing throughout this, with incredulity.
On reflection, I suspect the conversation wasn’t so much about whether they can win (which he seriously doubts), but more about what a hopelessly destructive campaigner Howard has been, and how he had managed to seriously derail the campaign just when thinks were looking (however marginally) less negative.
(spellings left uncorrected to show you I’m human…)
Glen,
Who cares who she was interviewing.
Thommo,
I know, I know. You are as honest as the day is long.
That’s why you blog at night.
See my 206 for a considered and more accurate assessment .
Thommo, the fat lady is at the opera.
Undoubtedly, La Scala.
Not a few months too soon.
And humming her heart out.
In finely woven gold cloth teddy bear blouson.
How can Howard be serious, the Labor party will cause more divorces and lower fertility no wonder Liberal hacks are concerned.
No ACNielsen today.
Obviously the Howard Hooters being upset by Rudd’s performance on LL tonight is clear indication our future PM did exceedingly well.
Get used to it lads, from 15 days hence you have at least 3 years of such enjoyment to look forward to.
Voterboy @275, you do the sums on that case and you get.
best case
46/54 lib/lab with the assumption that 10% are undecided and of those 70% fall back to liberal. That means that 46/54 is the split within the decided 90%
so.. 46% * 0.9 + 70% * 0.1 = 48.4
which gives a 48.4/51.6 lib/lab final result
and
worst case
47/53 lib/lab with the assumption that 15% are undecided and 70% of those fall to liberal. That means that the 47/53 is the split within the decided 85%.
And that give us… 50.45/49.55 lib/lab
Is that the best that they hope for?
Frankly I think the 70% split is a bit optimistic. So to is the 15% undecided.
I guess there will be more divorces, and necessarily a lower reproduction rate.
As mortgage hikes take their toll on young couples and their hopes and dreams.
From Radio Info re Trioli.
Hmm, no radio, but TV – does this mean the Lateline Gig AND some Yartz type program ?
Crikey, statistically speaking those countries with the best standard of living (in real terms.. you know.. happiness) are the ones with the lowest birth rate, and vice versa.
So I reckon Howard is right. Depression, homelessness, starvation.. more babies!
CW,
“The Ride of the Valkyries” is on high rotation in Greensborough.
VoterBoy – your lib buddy must be tearing out the hair. Howard’s non-core apolgy demonstrates the worst sort of judgement – tonight on the lateline news he looked like a goose, hissing and leering about how the ALP was misrepresenting his words. He it was, of course, who said sorry and then today told us it wasn’t an apology. How could you work on that campaign and think there was ANY hope?
Speaking of hope, is it a bloodbath yet?
GG – gotterdammerung is a bit high falutin for the demise of a bunch of clowns, isn’t it?
I like Leigh too, but Alexei is funnier.
As for this fat lady/opera stuff, the shows been over for the Government for months. It closed-up faster than a Max Bialystock production.
We’re just going through the inevitable, interminable, critical post mortem.
Evan, not to mention the months that follow when all the dirty secrets start leaking out
CL de F,
I’ve said it before, and I will say it again……..
The Labor TPP vote has fluctuated between 54 and 60% all year. The 48% Primary is rock solid. All the “soft vote” is on the Liberal side. Look at the faces and watch the demeanour of the Libs. They are gone!
This will be a massacre.
Someone on ABC was saying Trioli will concentrate on TV work (ABC) and speculated that in addition to Yartz and Friday Lateline she might take on Media Witch as Monica Attard is leaving.
But will she be commenting on some of the howlers she’s uttered while on radio though ??
GG – this too is my view. I simply can’t see the election night spectacle set to Wagner.
Mad Cow at 282 – yes, someone on the other thread also showed how these numbers are absolute nonsense – even if they do come good – the Libs are dead in the water.
M’sieur Footscray at 287 – it is now beyond hair-tearing and into the hysterical laughter phase.
The Australian voters may be waiting for Howard with nerf bats, as someone said, but the party machine is waiting for him with titanium baseball bats. He is hated, absolutely hated.
Greeeeeeeeeeensborough. Whoops!
Ring Cycle is all, here!
CL de F,
My dog is called Gotterdammerung. It attacks on the Command “Liberal”.
GG I rather like the quote from Babylon 5…
“They’re coming through,” Ivanova’s voice cries out desperately, “repeat, they’re coming through. This is Earth Alliance Station Babylon 5. They’re all over the place! They’re killing us. Can anyone hear me? They’re killing us!”
Putting Trioli on Media Watch as presenter is about as appropriate as putting Alan Jones on as scriptwriter.
I know I’m biased but I think Howard is sounding like he’s off his head. After a strong attacking performance yesterday (which of course he was prepared for, charts and all) he blunders with his Unapology, and gives a speech about the blight that will befall this country under Rudd, and I could have sworn he was about to tell us that rampaging unionists would eat our babies. Desperation time. Going for broke.
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