At least he will be in the Lodge, not a Sydney based wally in Kirribilli.

Communicat you mention non core promises, Howard is the master of non core promises and back flips, except he has run out of flipping space.

As I said before, your best bet is to stop attacking Rudd, he is more popular than Howard.

The only way Howard can win the next election is to show he has a vision for the future of Australia, but so far he shows he has none.

Why is Howard stuffed? Because he has run out of ideas, the electorate is sick of his lies and baggage, Beazley and Latham were duds all Labor needed was a leader that people think they can vote for, they finally have one.

The Liberals are losing the next election, it is up to them to win it. When will they realise that attacking Labor is the wrong strategy?

Peter,

What would say us a good Gini Coefficent for Australia?

Gday Pete how goes it? silly question up that creek without a paddle a mate?
If you could only talk the little fella into going for a long trip or maybe just going.
Tried to talk to his wife? worth a try.
Now posting here and hoping you can start a landslide in the polls is cute but unlikely.
How about printing your post out and throwing it in a bottle of every bridge you come across?
Election night is only about 150 sleeps away, maybe Kev can find you a job in some embassy?

And why in the world would anybody trust little Kev - he only seems to do/say what the crowd de jour thinks they want.
And then there is his back up team; Julia keeps him dancing with lots of shots to the foot, Swan makes up policy and incredible excuses faster than anyone I have ever seen and then there is Combet singing about the mining industry needing its head repositioned about AWAs.

Sounds about as disorganized and frightening as the old labor party

PM Rudd and Costello for Treasurer?

the consensus seems to be, one's bad, the other badder.

shall we be ruled by bandit gang 'a', or bandit gang 'b'?

you don't have to be ruled by bandit gangs, but i guess it saves having to get off yer collective bum's to change the system. there's an aphorism which covers the situation pretty well:

"you get the government you deserve."

the only problem is, the planet can't stand much more of this level of 'management', and the pollies that let you rape the environment aren't capable of doing any better, they truly can't, even if they wanted to.

it'll sort itself out in the usual way, war, famine, disease, and mass death, and survivors,if any, will say: "how could they not see it coming?