If she had the eloquence of a Mosely, the oratory skills of a Whitlam, they probably would have murdered her.....in an "Accident" of course.

Beautifully put, Paul.L

>>It is undeniable however that she struck a chord with a large number of average aussies... She just wasn't very smart. But I think an awful lot of Australians felt a greater sense of affinity with her<<

Yup, the great Aussie cringe. Identify with the not very smart wherever possible, especially if she is a battler.

Actually thinking about politics and policies is, at heart, patently un-Australian. All that we want is a good bloke who can skull a tinny and be seen at the footy - someone who understands the people.

Pauline Hanson discovered the secret of being such a politician, and the way it can be turned into a money-making exercise. Not quite in the league of those who have turned it into an art form, becoming a permanent drain on the public purse for no reason other than having been a politician.

Think Amanda Vanstone, happily redecorating her palace in Rome at our expense.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23401055-5013110,00.html

Our politicians are a set of money-grubbing chancers, who take every opportunity to eat out at our expense, travel first class at our expense, rort their expenses at every opportunity and cling to power way beyond any conceivable use-by date.

Think Alexander Downer, and consider who paid for him to enjoy his lunch instead of fulfilling his incredibly arduous responsibilities to his constituents.

http://news.theage.com.au/downers-lunch-undermines-libs-protest/20080221-1tj9.html

Pauline will undoubtedly have another go at the gravy train, being the "battler" that she is.

Lucky us.

Umm, Well I dont think She would be trying to take the carers payment from those saving the Government billions of dollars to fund putting more migrants on welfare.
It seems the Rudd Government think 4 cents and hour is too much .
Nor do I think pauline would be writing letters to neighbours of people on pensions and sending them into houses wired up while waisting millions od dollars to have some dick sit outside abnd invade people privacy.

Pauline said what most Aussies think. She was slaughtered by the media because the Government control the media.

Tell you what this thread has done however. Its pointed out the remarkable likeness of two posters speaking of Dicks.
Morgan and Col. Simply amazing. Oh and another thing I dont think pauline would be supporting is the funding for migrants for medication denied to the Australian tax payers.

I was listeing to John Laws before he left speaking with a lady who had to sell her home because their daughter was on $2,000 dollar per month medication.
The same medication is supplied by us the tax payer compliments of the Australia Government free of charge for migrants.
Indeed Where is Pauline she will be sadly missed and Abbotts still no doubt using our tax dollars to fund his dick christian mates in trying to bully women out of terminations.
Rude outragous idiot fool! Someone should tell him the worlds running out iof food and millions are dieing of starvation.
Oh And Steve Feilding too a major snob who thinks he walk on the higher moral ground and there is no need for him to have a animal welfare policy.
SHAME

I see that our august and professional advocates for animal welfare, "People Against Live Exports and Intensive Farming", are once again enhancing their credibility by babbling on semicoherently.

"Rude outragous (sic) idiot fool!"

Which of their members does this epithet best describe? Perhaps whoever's currently posting as PALE&IF's been hitting their Bundy and Mersyndol cocktails a bit early today.

rehtclub - I'm sorry, that challenge is pretty idiotic. I'm a reasonably well read individual and I've come across the word xenophobic many times (often on these boards. Wonder why that might be?) but eximosses, I've not encountered.

My point remains - xenophobic would be quite an important word, especially for somebody like Ms Hanson. It's the kind of word that would actually crop up on conversations with people from foreign cultures, but I suspect that you've just gone and tried to find some obscure word in an attempt to make ignorance of this word appear as reasonable as ignorance of the word xenophobic.

I'll admit, I'm not aware of the word. Though when I type define: then each word (xenophobic and eximosses) not a single definition pops up for eximosses, but many, many definitions appear for xenophobic.

One's relevant. One isn't. I'm not even convinced yours is a word outside your head. Hell, it doesn't show up on a google search of the entire world.

Not used once.

I do agree she wasn't treated justly by the parties, though I reject that claim against the media.

She should have had the opportunity to fail miserably, just like any other not-too-bright independent politician (the party MPs that aren't too bright often manage to cruise along, supported by the party apparatus. Witness Wilson Tuckey to see what I mean).
The imprisonment wasn't right.

As for everybody thinking it was a media conspiracy - honestly get a grip. There was no conspiracy there, she was just a fool, and the media love interviewing fools because they make themselves look stupid, which makes for a far more entertaining interview.
So while the media probably did go to town on her, it was because she gave them enough rope to do so.

The other parties however, did stoop to tactics that were below the belt, when they really didn't need to. They got spooked by her populist policies and went for the jugular, when they really could have eviscerated her policies and shown her up to be the transparently ignorant candidate she was.

rehctub, TLTR is right, that's a nonsensical challenge. She wasn't required to know *all* the words, but she could start with the ones most people know. And the media didn't crucify PH, she did it herself. They just filmed it.

Col responding to Steel. Funny.

Pericles: "Our politicians are a set of money-grubbing chancers, who take every opportunity to eat out at our expense, travel first class at our expense, rort their expenses at every opportunity and cling to power way beyond any conceivable use-by date."
Normally I agree with your every utterance, Pericles, but not this time. This cynical view — "they're all bastards, every last one'v'em!" — is extremely pervasive but ultimately lazy. In fact, they're a mottley crew and have all sorts of different motivations. No one would be in politics for the money, or even for the riders, when they could be a lawyer at the top end of town, which most of them could. And even though many rort the system, many don't. Your view is way too cynical to be true.

PALE&IF, you often talk about RSPCA Queensland. Are they supporters of yours? Just out of interest, do they know what you post on here?