The big story on this day two years ago – the final Thursday of the 2007 election campaign – was the Lindsay leaflet scandal, which made an interesting fit with the rumors of the previous afternoon flying around about Joe Hockey being in deep trouble in North Sydney. Today’s Election Redux takes in the two events. It’s also worth listening to the Jackie Kelly interview on ABC radio’s AM program of that morning – the transcript is here, with the audio available at the top of that page.
Poor Old Shrek
As if being the poor goose that has to defend Workchoices isn’t enough of a burden, now Joe Hockey has to try and put out the fires of those political pyromaniacs of the Kelly Gang in his own seat – in 48 hours.
Shrek’s electorate of North Sydney is filled to the brim with people of a certain moral persuasion on social issues, their delicate Naw Shaw sensibilities being almost legendary…. Dahrling.
But out in the Bogansville of Lindsay, uber-Bogan Jackie Kelly and her bourbon swilling coterie of mental midgets thought it would be a really shit hot idea to start handing out fake ALP pamphlets depicting Labor being under the thumb of mufti-madness.
Honest to god – these guys must have the IQ of an ugg-boot.
With seats like Kooyong, Goldstein, Wentworth, Higgins, Ryan, Bennelong and North Sydney all having decent swings to the ALP in them, the last thing the Coalition wants the small L liberals in these places to hear is yet another reason for them to change their vote to that nice harmless man Kevin Rudd.
It’ll only take a few more votes for those seats that aren’t already changing to fall. Having blockheads from the dregs of the NSW Liberal Party pulling race stunts with 48 hours to go, must be making the members of those leafy seats looking for the nearest tree to string up these fools.
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