It's not a double standard, because the sexes are not the same nor equal, least of all in their sexuality. The nature of harmony between male and female is not that each does to the other an equal thing. It's that each does for the other an unequal thing.

I have never knowingly meet a female Virgin, at least, not since I was old enough to know what one was. I wonder what they are like?

Back in my late teens, & early 20s, many of my mates, [blokes] were virgins, [there must have a few pretty active non virgin blokes around then]. Most of these virgin mates married the first nice non virgin girl who took them to bed. Not many of these couples are still married, at least not to each other.

I'm not quite sure what all this means, except perhaps that Tony is wasting his time. The ladies will do what ever they bl00dy well like, & the blokes will be draged along, [quietly, or kicking & screaming, it doesn't matter], like it or not.

Ex,

Whether he is well rehearsed or not (even then he is spontaneous compared to Rudd) the issue is what he said, and whether the media came even close to interpreting what he said.

The left wing press took a skewed interpretation of what he said, dropped in the V word and then attacked him on what they thought he might have meant.

If you don't actually say anything, you cannot be criticised, a strategy that Rudd has employed effectively for years.

For the next electiions I wonder if Rudd would define which are core promises and which are non core (will be ignored if inconvienient)

Dear Shadow Minister,

What you're talking about is PIGO.
Politics of the Inner Glow!
And, in actual fact - this is used not
by the PM but by the Opposition.

Because the Opposition wants to be admired, loved,
and above all - win the next election -
they indulge in actions and words which can have
no conceivable effect but which makes them feel a
warm inner glow that they are fine people with firm
but compassionate moral values.

The favourite PIGO activity at present
is denouncing Global Warming -
where there's smoke there's jobs.
Linking asylum seekers to border protection.
Offering what they consider a "better" policy
on carbon emissions -
(providing that the action is not too expensive,
or bad for the polluters).
And in general expressing everything so vaguely
and densely so that they can extricate themselves
from difficulties by claiming not to have said what
they did in fact say.

PIGO is the perfect form of politics: it costs
little and fools some of the people some of the
time. It is much practised by the extreme religious
right - whose spiritual home is self-righteous
opposition. Tony Abbott and - his front-benchers -
are perfect examples.
All of them are long-standing party hacks - who can't
be left out. They're also all friends of Tony Abbott.

Foxy,

The next election won't be about values of the leaders.

It will centre on: Asylum Seekers, Rising Interest Rates, Debt, Unemployment, the disgrace in public Hospitals and maybe the meaning of a real Education Revolution.

It will also closely examine the Governmernts's record on fuel, prices, grocery prices, whaling, National Broadband, the 'blame game' and all those other promises Rudd made at the last election.

Oh and Rudd won't run on Climate Change ... he can't ... it isn't.

Dear Keith,

So I take it that you're pleased with
the way things are being handled then -
by the Opposition.
And according to your calculations, the
problem (climate change) doesn't exist.

In that case - you and the Opposition have
a lot in common. All they want is less to do,
more time to do it, and higher pay for not
getting it done!