There once was a PM named Abbott
A man with some very bad habits
Whose election proved a disaster
A second term he couldn't master.

YAHOO!

If they are stupid enough to make Turnbull leader, that is the end of the liberal party. No party can survive with a turncoat as leader.

When they do knock down this challenge, it will be time to kick Turnbull out once & for all.

I for one, & I have a lot of mates, will never again vote for a party with this bit of garbage a member.

"Conservatives are combative."

or from another perspective it could be that conservatives are more inclined to be upfront about what they think and do rather than what seems to be a left trait of claiming a whole bunch of things about what they are doing and actually doing something quite different.

Reality is both are stereotypes more honoured in the breach and the authors comment is more a reflection of the authors biases than an an objective assessment of political players.

The bigger problem is that it seems that the characteristics it takes to get and hold political power are not ones generally tied to genuine concern for the well being of others regardless of the mantras tied to the particular political ideology.

R0ber

What Hasbeen said is probably true, and because of that, we can be pretty sure that a Labor government will be in power after the election next year. Not that it will be that different from a Turnbull government: Turnbull's first choice was Labor; they didn't want him.

Turnbull is a lowlife, even for a politician. Up will go the silly CO2 promises to equal those of the madman, Shorten. Up will go the number of country-shopping illegals and sleepers readying themselves for the caliphate. Up will go the foreign aid and welfare. Up will go everything that will give power to the most cynical, self-serving man to ever enter politics. Liberal, Labor, whatever, Australia is stuffed.

Lol! Look at all the Lib supporters preparing to jump ship as their beloved party slowly implodes.
The same thing is happening in the Liberal party that happened with labor, and I well remember the roasting the Lib supporters on this forum gave others at the 'knifing' of the Labor PM.

Here we go again...Turnbull surely couldn't do any worse than the holy Abbott.

Whilst I agree with the sentiments of the author, his facts concerning the lead up to World War 1 are in error. The Chancellor of Germany in 1914 was not Otto Von Bismark, in fact, Bismark did his best to avoid a general european war. He was replaced in 1909 by Bethmann Hollweg. If you are going to quote history, get the facts right first.