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.
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