plerdsus's comment is better than the original article.
Luciferase please see EQ's answer on Abbot's not giving costings and also read Plerdus's comments. He actually puts it better than I can.
The point is poor old Tristan really sets himself up here but it is amusing seeing people who are not as clever as they think they are getting their just desserts

SM,

George W. Bush had a degree from Yale and an MBA from Harvard.

He was still as dumb as a brick.

Watching Abbott rattle around inside his brain for a description yesterday was excruciating....and all he could come up with was "sex appeal".

Pathetic!

Poirot, you have insulted all bricks, perhaps without meaning to. George Bush's intelligence was below that of any self-respecting brick!

Abbott has an Oxford blue, eh! Does this refer to a punch-up he had during his time there as a Rhodes Scholar?

Listening to Abbott talk, it is hard to believe he is a member of the intelligent class. He talks like a mechanical man: slow, labored, using only three letter words such as a brickie might use. He often repeats the same sentence over and over as if he thinks he is talking to morons.

Of course he did reveal that he is not a suppository of all knowledge. We already knew that! And he is not Mr Personality either although he has a good eye for an attractive woman.

It fits in with his 'Tarzan' persona!

It is amazing Tristan, that you can talk about trust and then ramble on about Tony Abbott increasing the GST. This is such a red herring. All the GST money goes to the states, so why on earth would Abbott want to increase it? He can't use any of it.

As soon as Kevin Rudd brought up The GST in the debate, I became deeply skeptical. It appeared to me that he was deliberately trying to confuse the electorate. Rudd is playing a dangerous game, if the voters see through his veil of misinformation, he will be totally discredited.

Tristan, I can tell that you are a young man so need to be encouraged to see the truth about matters. The Socialist Left of the ALP are the problem with the ALP not the solution. When the ALP had a simple message for the middle class, they had all they needed to succeed. The SL have this unhealthy view that they must change people's opinions to match theirs. That sort of political mind corrupts the person and leads to hubris. The ALP's boost in the polls from Rudd's return was due only to the unfairness of his original removal. Australians still like to give people a fair go. The SL like to take this principle further and buy votes in the name of affirmative action. Once Rudd started to open his mouth he could be seen as the snake-oil salesman he is: why else would all the SL members of the government's cabinet walk out on him after he knifed Gillard.
And don't, like your colleagues complain about the Conservatives. They know how to appeal to the middle class. And don't slag off at Tony Abbott. He does more good deeds for the disadvantaged (eg., women in refuges) and community groups than the whole of the ALP caucus put together.
If the conservatives appeal to the middle class because they appear able to protect them, Abbott appeals to them because he is honest and well intentioned. That seems a pretty good combination to me.

At last, I managed to smoke out the left whingers who had gone into hiding after their hero (Rudd the Dudd) is starting to stink. A few pointed zingers did the trick.

No one that gets to be PM or President is stupid, just some do some really stupid things. TA has often a case of foot in mouth, but has brought down Dudd, and Juliar. Juliar made a string of unbelievable blunders, but Dudd, however, is a special case, in that just about every thing he has done has been a disaster, and has been prepared to backflip over everything.