I think we are heading for a drover's dog election, did anyone hear John Howard's almost lunatic ravings on radio national? He is acting like he is rattled, he has run out of ideas and is resorting to irrational scare campaigns.

Rudd has already said he will play mind games with Howard, Rudd is setting the agenda and Howard has no concept of the political game anymore.

Howard has too much baggage, his bending of the truth in the past 10 years has come back to haunt him and people don't care what he has to say anymore, because he says nothing.

I fear for his mental health, but when he loses the election it will be everybody elses fault, not his. If a future Rudd government turns out to be a disaster we have one man to blame, John Howard.

I think tenders should be called to convert Kirribilli House into a psych ward. The man has lost it.

Maxine versus the PM. Brilliant strategy. The Media will devote 10% of political news to this contest. We won't hear anything new or extra from the PM because he gets the coverage anyway. But Maxine will be granted a big platform for Labor and she is a very able spokesperson.
Warning to Labor. A lot of us out here are scared of the union bogey, and not at all convinced of the unfairness of work choices. Everyone has met, or knows about, some rascal who has taken his wages without pulling his weight effectively just as much as we have met or know about someone who has been screwed by a rotten employer. But the whole worker versus the employer thing is a 19 century formulation. People who don't like the offered conditions should refuse the work. I have done so in the past quite appropriately and to my advantage. The issue is how do we provide the wellbeing of those who are too weak, too vulnerable, too commodity-like? I think we need sound business-like attitude to jobs and positive encouragements for people who are structurally disadvantaged. The PM will attempt to scare us about unions.

I want to see who Rudd is going to appoint to the positions of real power, the judge, jury and executioner positions, within his new Industrial Relations empire!

I bet Greig Combet knows.

It's the details we're not being told anbout by young Kevvie.

Tony Cutcliffe has nailed it ! Factionalism is going to get Rudd. The question is, will it be before the election or after it ? Either way it's clear - factionalism always paralyses Labor Governments, so it's not really worth the trouble of installing them. There are still the Roosters to worry about, and the Swan / Tanner debacle is a very real indicator of how compromised Rudd is already. We shouldn't feel much one way or the other for Maxine - there are NO safe seats anymore, as we approach the moment of political accountability on so many issues. This bunch of decade old opposition harpys don't have the answer to anything - and there is plenty of time for the electorate to wake up to that simple fact. While Rudd was fiddling with the Anzac day clock in Vietnam, our PM was at a dawn service in Rudd's electorate of Griffith ...... Rudd's antics are laboured, and the exhiliration of the honeymoon is about to be overrun by the marriage jar of marbles reality.

The ALP National conference is highlighting a leader who wants power more than anything else.
A leader who has shown he will control the direction his party takes and rarely allowed other to say other than what he tells them to say.
Spin is his tool not policy's.
And his feet are turning to clay and are about to wash away from under him.
Full of hope and unable to see the truth his team are behind him.
That lost man is John Howard.
And that anyone can think Kevin Rudd is just spin speaks so very clearly about the failure of conservative Australia to debate the miss use of a mandate and the reversal of 2004 election results in such a massive way.
spin? maybe Howard has lost even that skill.

I was watching John Howard on Sunday this morning. Funny how it is possible to know what he is going to say before he says it.

He has about a dozen responses to any question, does not matter who asks them.

Surely this is holding us in contempt, answer the questions John and you may see the polls swing back your way, continue with the charade and you better start packing.