I would suggest that the very title of his book, namely Battle Lines sums up his attitude. As does the contents of the book too.
See for instance http://www.tonyabbottexposed.com

I would suggest that Bruce has hidden behind his own Christophobic nature in order to vent his disdain and dislike for the next likely PM.

Bruce writes in the usual leftist sarcastic tone

'Men and women aspiring to high office should, amongst other things, be judged by the company they keep. ' And your friends Bruce? Gillards friends (Wilson?) Deveny? Thomson? Your inference Bruce is merely slime.

Don't forget the ABC and leftist comrades have had their fair share of child molestors, child porn addicts and that it was the feminist PM who supported Slipper.

Its fine for you to hate Abbott Bruce but don't hide behind your intellectual bias in order to assasinate character. Abbott has kept his vow to his wife and children unlike most. Then again you might well call that a woman hater.

Bruce,

A well elucidated article on the vacuous button-pushing style of Mr Abbott.

runner,

Why do you ascribe "Christophobia" (whatever that is) and hatred to people with whom you disagree?

- employs scathing personal attacks in lieu of policy proposals and initiatives
- has played fast and loose with the truth
- seeks to create and often succeeds in creating a confected uproar
- would bring to bear what had proved so magnificently effective before: fear, confusion and scorn
- How close will he (she) get to the United States to shore up his (her) political power?
- is a strange and complex individual; all of these complexities are contained in a person who has had very little life experience
Question one, who are we talking about here?
Question two, any details about the ban on abortion, or is this another play to the ladies in the gallery?
Question three, aside from swooning whenever POTUS is in town, what does Gillard bring to the international stage?
Answer one, Gillard
Answer two, haven't heard about this but it smells like a red herring
Answer three, nothing
This article is pure ALP propaganda and fear-mongering. It's Abbott, after all is said and done, who has been in a stable marriage for over 20 years, who with his wife has raised three daughters, who employs a by-all-accounts capable woman as is chief of staff, etc. etc.

Given that the basis for the article is on an incident that supposedly occurred with no witnesses, and told decades later by someone who supposedly has form in making false accusations, then by the same token, we can talk about Juliar's active involvement in the fraud scandal that bilked the AWU.

Given Juliar's pathological inability to tell the truth, the REAL Julia is coming to the fore. I.e, the one that swore allegiance to Rudd whilst actively undermining him, the one that swore that there would be no carbon tax, the one that said there was an East Timor solution in the offing etc.

What a disingenuous article.

In the meantime Gillard has cogent and well substantiated claims about her past actions as a solicitor to answer.

And now as well as files going missing from her former employer, Slater and Gordon, the counterpart documents are missing from a government department.

Due process and the operation of the law is being undermined in this country by the Gillard government and all we can get is the same b......t about Abbott who appears to have led an exemplary life.

It has been said that some of the best causes have the worst advocates. There are many questions about Abbott's suitability to be prime minister and his profound ignorance on foreign policy matters is only one of them. However, Mr Haigh does his argument no good by the polemical style he adopts and his failure to raise the equally valid doubts a substantial portion of the Australian electorate have about Julia Gillard.

Lets have a proper debate about the merits or otherwise of the respective parties policies (or lack thereof) rather than this tired tirade.

If Abbott can stop the debt cancer and end the CO2 tax ,that will be two enormous positives for all Australians.

What we are seeing is a lot of Public Servants with their noses in the Labor trough of wastefull spending.They fear the cuts that will have to be made under the Coalition.The Dept of Climate Change should be the first casualty.

The personality analysis is just a side show.We want policies that work.

What biased rubbish.

Sure Abbott has got faults, we all have.

He may have even done some things wrong in his past, who hasn't.

But Abbott has no life experience? What about his studies, what about his own life sruggles, what about his family, what about his community work, what about his political life

Come on Bruce, stop just writing for the Labor die-hards or idealistic humanitarians.

Abbott must be doing something right.

As Arjay suggests, debt and other policy areas are poliicies supported by many.

In the end, the policies are what it is about

You forgot to mention budgie smugglers.

I love how we avoid a defamation lawsuit by comparing him to Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator rather than Hitler.
This article's just so desperate, it's laughable.

Why is Abbott's Christianity questionable, but Gillard's atheism isn't? At least we have some approximate guide to what Abbott's moral compass is!
It was the godless who became the Greatest Dictators.

Bruce Haig has written some good articles on Law and Liberties.see Bruce http://www.globalresearch.ca/ Fascism is afoot throughout the West and this site confronts the ugly,unpalitable truth.

Agree with Arjay.
It is a, ah um, convincing human ah um, interest article, by a ah um man, who has ah um, known Abbott for ah um er, three decades or more, and ah, probably three um, decades or more, than many posters, trying as they er um ah, might, to ah um, paint the ah um, Author as just another, um er, loony tune leftie, with a ah er, commie agenda?
Clearly, that's the very best red under the bed critique, they are er um, capable of?
One can only, um, um, um, hope and for the er ah sake of the um, er, coalition, that a vastly more ah um, popular, more ah er um, modest, economically ah ah um, literate Malcolm Turnbull, gets back, um ah, the captain's guernsey?
Rhrosty.

Shockadelic, Hitler was a devout catholic, there again you may not have heard of the Inquisition, not a nice time for non catholic believers and atheists.

Kipp writes

'there again you may not have heard of the Inquisition, not a nice time for non catholic believers and atheists. '

a bit like being in a mothers womb under secularism. Pretend a baby is not a baby and dispose of it.

Rhosty,

If worse came to worse, and the Coalition panics, i doubt they would go back to Turnbull; Hockey more likely.

Thanks, Kipp for "enlightening" me.
Was Hitler a "devout" Catholic, or just a photo-op one?
Whatever, his regime was certainly not devoutly Christian.
Communism was *overtly* irreligious and killed tens of millions more people than the Nazis.

Islam has a similar history of oppressing other religions, only that practice extends into the *modern* world, unlike Christian inquisitions.
I bet you wouldn't say anything against a Muslim MP though, would you?

I agree with the article-it is neither "biased" or "Christophobic", but identifies a self-justifying, denialist and obnoxious colonising and crusading tendency both on the Liberal side (Abetz?) and within sections of the ALP, represented by social conservatives like Sen. Don Farrell.
These people have elevated themselves to the role of sole arbiters of what should be right and wrong and remain more determined than ever to impose their vision on others, regardless of even of reasonable objections to their program and methods.

paul walter "These people have elevated themselves to the role of sole arbiters of what should be right and wrong and remain more determined than ever to impose their vision on others, regardless of even of reasonable objections to their program and methods."

Look in the mirror, Mr Progressive.