I don't think OLO's old bloke commenters should take the illness Dementia Pugilistica lightly.

As Suse says his own Party voted him out.

Every time he opened his mouth even the Refugees from Comment Forums of The Australian (who now infest OLO threads) were embarrassed.

Tony Abbott's loyalty to those who had served long is entirely expected for a INTJ (MyersBriggs typology). He supported men and women colleagues however the focus on the women was the crux of the political campaign against him.

'Their' taxpayer-funded ABC @$1.3 billion PA led the charge. Was there a day when the ABC wasn't hammering Abbott and usually over minor 'issues' drummed up and sensationalised? How often did Q&A scold Abbott for not immediately passing a Bill to introduce gay marriage, ignoring that labor governments Rudd (2007-10), Gillard plus Greens sidekicks (2010-13) and Second Rudd govt (2013) had not passed gay marriage either because it was electoral suicide to do so (and privately, leadership personally opposed the idea).

As for 'macho', that is just a convenient insult and weapon used by the feminists and leftist 'Progressives' against any man they want to 'kneecap' (another gross term the Marxist-inspired activists use).

It was also a sly way of playing Abbott's strengths as a man, a citizen and as a human, against him. Abbott models the action on diet and fitness that the health authorities are trying to encourage in men (and women). Even when he is busy and has the perfect excuse to slack off, he does what the Heart Foundation, the Stroke Foundation and others encourage, he gets off his behind and exercises.

Better still he volunteers and assists important voluntary organisations like Surf Life Saving Australia.

It was outrageous that Abbott was mocked and viciously sledged for his iconic bathers and participation in surf and cycling events by the ABC and others who should have known better but had a secondary, self-serving political agenda in mind.

The vicious and sustained political campaign against Abbott that goes on even now could not have been successful without the support of the self-serving ABC and the numerous self-entitled others who swing from the taxpayers' teats and have gotten used to doing so.

@onthebeach

Yes it is important to examine A‘s brain. Such an examination might reform A, so he is a modest, useful member of society.

In that regard INTJ type personalities on the MYERS-BRIGGS scale (to which onthebeach refers) are in part https://www.personalitypage.com/INTJ.html:

“ambitious, self-confident, deliberate, long-range thinkers…[BUT]

"Other people may have a difficult time understanding an INTJ. They may see them as aloof and reserved. Indeed, the INTJ...is likely to not give as much praise or positive support as others may need or desire...

When under a great deal of stress, the INTJ may become obsessed with mindless repetitive, Sensate activities, [such as chanting “Stop the Boats” when bereft of other achievements]

"INTJs need to remember to express themselves sufficiently, so as to avoid difficulties with peoples' misunderstandings. In the absence of properly developing their communication abilities, they may become abrupt and short with people, and isolationists..."

Basically leaders need to be able to trust subordinates and delegate power. Being an isolated pocket Pope who issued Captain's Picks lost him Public and Party support.

This explains why the Hero of the Grizzled Conservatives languishes on the Backbench between odd talkback radio interviews like a Political Shock Jock.

Abbott was a failed experiment in a host of different ways. He once said he will sell everything except his backside. Well at the last election he sacrificed his last remaining asset.

He kept poking and prodding his party to sack him, they did. He never expected that to ever happen. For some reason he thought he was doing the right thing by everybody including his own party. That certainly means he has a mental illness, to not see the damage in what he was doing.

There was an instant calming effect across the entire continent when Abbott fell. He had people that stressed from wondering what he was going to say next to embarrass the nation.

Australia certainly does not need eccentric idiots as PM. Abbott was an infiltrator of the Liberal party, grossly out of step with the majority of them. There are others there, I believe will be culled at the next election. The electorate was led to an incredible mistake by Abbott’s own ability to state B/S and believe it.

Well that's funny, 579. Abbott seems unrepentant to me. And Bronny wants to stay on to stop terrororists.

Why is "macho" an insult? Do we want real men, or lady-boys? How many women like their men to be soft and mushy? Look at your local footy team, the girls are all over them like flies over a sticky pudding

Macho, macho, man......

Well that's funny, 579. Abbott seems unrepentant to me. And Bronny wants to stay on to stop terrororists.

Why is "macho" an insult? Do we want real men, or lady-boys? How many women like their men to be soft and mushy? Look at your local footy team, the girls are all over them like flies over a sticky pudding