As a conservative you are bored because Howard is old, visionless and stultifying.

Those who claim Rudd is just the same are not looking. Or don't want to look.

His launch today was excellent and for the first time the ALP owned all their former PM's. Where was Fraser on Monday? He has left the party because he cannot stand them. Hewson has not had a good word to say about Howard since god knows when and the only other former leader still around is that spectacular failure Alex "dolly" Downer.

He hates Rudd because Rudd is one of the most intelligent men in parliament today and he has a vast pool of compassion and the need to restore the fair go to the country that has been stripped away.

Look at the appalling case of Tony Tran if you don't believe how out of control this government is.

I will be glad to see the back end of them.

"He hates Rudd because Rudd is one of the most intelligent men in parliament today and he has a vast pool of compassion and the need to restore the fair go to the country that has been stripped away."

Rudd maybe intelligent, but when I heard him publicly apologising for attending a strip club, I cringed.

It is not the fact that he visited a strip club that makes him unfit to be a good prime minister, it is the fact that he saw fit to publicly apologise for it that makes him unfit.

The governer of California labeled these types of politicans as 'girlie men'.

If Rudd turns out to be the poster 'mangina' for the feminists, heaven help us.