michael_in_adelaide wrote:

>>The thought of Abbott as prime minister is almost too terrifying to contemplate.>>

Well that's the line the ALP has been pushing. They're saying:

>>We may be a bunch of morons (true) but Abbott would be worse (maybe).>>

"The importance of NOT being Abbott*" is all the ALP has to offer.

Kevin Rudd asks:

>>Who is best placed to defeat Tony Abbott?>>

He offers himself as the candidate best able to accomplish that task.

On this, as on so many issues, Rudd is wrong.

The man best able to defeat Tony Abbott is .... Tony Abbott.

The best ALP strategy must be to hang on to power for as long as possible so as to maximise Abbott's chances of hanging himself.

On the other hand the ALP leadership are such numpties that Abbott will probably survive the worst he can do to himself.

*With apologies to Oscar Wilde

@ stevenlmeyer,
[Put the Electorates up for sale on e-bay to the highest bidder, and he/she becomes PM.]
Isn't that the USA system?

I vote for parties not people...and Julie Bishop would not be singing from the same song book if the shoe was on the other foot.

Come on Phil. Julie could not get her foot down deep enough in the mud & slime, to find the shoe that Julia found, & is wearing.

Fact is, very few could ever get that deep, & even fewer would want to.

Rudd or Gillard.. Both disfunctional in their own ways. Rudd, impossible to work with (so they say), Gillard, beholden to the greens and independants. People! Labour! it's the policies!! Get them right and we vote for you. As with the global warming tax, you want to get rid of it? argue the rapidly unravelling science! Oh for heavens sake, bring on an election as soon as possible please.

VK3AUU

That is exactly what the known vindictive little man will do if he's trounced(and that's no cert!)on Monday. He knows he holds the whip hand.

It's the very worst outcome he can inflict onto them all and Gillard will be severely embarrassed as the only Australian PM ever to have had to resign through a no confidence motion.

He'll say 'I f'ing got them into f'ing power and now I can f'ing put them out of f'ing power.' ... and probably in mandarin.

Have that no confidence motion ready Julie.

Julie at the same time promise not to run a candidate against either Oakshott or Windsor at the subsequent election. You'll be knocked down by their rush to support your motion.