Now...if only I could just get past my instinctive dislike of Abbott.
Suseonline,
definitely not instinctive, it's definitely indoctrination. That dislike of Abbott is like many gays nowadays, it's somehow fashionable amongst the weirdos. Anyone with an ounce of sense doesn't vote for Rudd or Abbott, they vote for the better team & the better team happens to have Abbott at the helm.

individual,

That's quite amusing, considering Australia these days appears to run it's elections "Presidential style".

I'd be obliged if you could articulate those particular virtues pertaining to Abbott's "team"?

Can't see it myself....considering their "signature policy" appears to encompass handing over big bickies to rich ladies (dumb!)

Abbott is clearly a thug!

His insult directed at our Prime Minister shows that he has no class, no breeding at all. On a bike is where he belongs or wearing his budgie-smugglers at some beach.

I would ask the Abbott Apologists to list the qualities that Abbott has that would see him become a successful Prime Minister! Driving a truck, stacking shelves in a supermarket, filleting fish, lying with a straight face, giving women on 150 K a year a 75 K baby bonus, etc, doesn't cut it!

Could anyone in their right mind imagine Tony addressing the U.N., his big ears flapping, his constant repetition of sentences, his battered face with its pugnacious jaw jutting. Perhaps he would tell the other members to 'SHUT UP' or 'GET STUFFED'!

Australia is about to make the biggest electoral mistake in its history if they elect Abbott.

Rudd deserves another chance. We don't want HOWARD LITE rewarding the rich and punishing the poor!

Rudd is a bully and a cheat. He thinks that shouting down someone is the way to get what he wants. His mistreatment of the make up artist is proof of this.

Abbott waited politely for Rudd to finish droning on before answering the question directed to him, and could not even finish his reply before Rudd interjected and tried to turn the debate into a Rudd monologue. I was thinking "won't this idiot shut up," long before Abbott spoke.

Apparently the request to keep answers short, allow others to speak, and not bring in cheat sheets does not apply to our sociopathic PM.

Rudd is a bully and a cheat, says Shadow Minister.

I seem to remember that lowlife Abbott, during his University days, was said to have punched the wall alongside a female student's head to show his displeasure and anger.

S.M. get your facts right! Abbott is a scripted individual who hides the thug inside him very well.

His insult directed at our Prime Minister shows that he has no class, no breeding at all.
David G,
Our prime Minister has insulted too many of us hence Abbott telling him to shut it. I mean Rudd was like a little spoiled prat who wouldn't let Abbott speak.
What you call lack of class, sensible people call cal;ling a spade a spade. Rudd was so thrown off balance he didn't even know where to look. It showed his lack of class as a manager.