Foxy, "Abbott once described himself as the "political love-child" of John Howard and Bronwyn Bishop.

Need more be said?"

Heh, heh, yes, for starters there no way that the Greens can top that and secondly, Labor's Lollypop Kid would be eaten alive by his deputy before he could delegate the necessary deed to Swann.

"According to Peter Costello, Abbott once described
himself as the "political love-child" of John Howard
and Bronwyn Bishop."

Thank-you Foxy, for putting that image in my head.

SM,

Tony Abbott is far too much of a politician to in such a staged position to make *any* comment that he feel isn't going to give him some political advantage. He is as foxy says he's an opportunistic, scavenger/feeder.
I suggest like the lines in the Rod Stewart song "Your,(his) ad libbed lines were well rehearsed". That whole piece was a set up to gain gullible voters.

It is one thing to tell things as you see them but another thing entirely if you're trying to get elected. I'm sure his strategists have crunched the numbers and figure that he maybe able to pull back a few lost votes from the defector particularly those from family first and independents.

In politics at that level there is no such a thing as off the cuff personal beliefs or it's political Russian roulette

There is an old lawyer's (and politician's) saying that you should never ask a question that you don't already know the answer that you expect to get.

What else did this publication expect to hear from Abbott's lips? That he condoned his daughters screwing around? Of course not.

The most ridiculous thing about this whole issue is that this is a magazine that specialises in celebrity gossip, diets, fashion, horoscopes, sex tips and adverts for so-called mediums and spiritualists is being taken 'seriously' when they do an interview with a politician.

The lesson to all politicians, and other notables, is NEVER get drawn into an interview with such magazines.

Really, who gives a flying fig about anything that these magazines say?

In a week when the coalition has finally picked itself up out of the gutter, the Womens Weekly does an interview with Tony Abbott, he gets denigrated, and loads of unlikely people spring to his defence.

One vote can change a Nation. Three votes changed the Government on 24 November 2007. KR got those three votes, and TA got only one but what a change that has engineered. I think this will make Belly very unhappy. His bookie will cancel his bets on KR, and TA will finally make the religious roots of our Good Government the issue of an election campaign.

What the few who still criticize Tony Abbott fear, is that he is a Roman Catholic puppet. You should study your history. The English Catholics are the ones who adopted the Holy Bible as the English Constitution, much to the consternation of Rome. It was Roman Catholic landholdings in England that led to the eventual split in 1533. The indigenous English were slaves on Roman Catholic Estates owned and operated by the Church, a giant corporation run from Rome. Henry VIII confiscated those estates and gave land rights as Freehold, to the English, under a Scheme of Grants. As Trustee for Almighty God, the King owned everything, ( in English Law) but granted Fee Simple, to his subjects in return for loyalty.

The Pope was rightly indignant at his displacement as Holy Father on Earth. Continental Europe never quite got the gist of this radical move. The connection between Almighty God, the land and the people, through the King is uniquely English. It comes out of the Holy Bible.

The real problem confronting Kevin07, which could shoot him down in 2010 is his failure to understand his Christianity, and his willingness to allow eight Sovereign Popes to rule, in eight of the nine State Churches in Australia. He has to pull Christina, Anna, John, and the carpenter in the West into line, and make them obey Canberra, or lose his plot and spot. We need to be One Nation, not a polyglot collection of potentates

Peter Hume.......

I love that quote from Woody Alan.

All I can say is that the last thing I would want is to marry a virgin and from the remarks of the vast majority of females I have met, the same goes for them. Is that a double standard or what ?