That's all we need:

Mr Peter "...and have a baby for Australia" Costello with his hands on the reins of the environment.

If he is so good at number crunching how come he can't work out that Australia can only support a limited population?

Costello as PM means goodbye to sustainable practices and that includes humane animal farming.

PALE&IF,

A few explanations:

1) My reasons for stoping posting are usually only
when I feel I've said everything I wanted to say on
any given subject, and for me the subject has run its
course, and I have nothing more to contribute.

2) I introduce jokes on any thread merely to lighten
things up when I feel that posts are getting to
emotional between posters.

3) I start any new thread on topics that I'd like to
be discussed by other posters on this Forum. To
get a variety of opinons from which hopefully we can all
learn and grow.

4) Any quotes that I give in my posts are merely a
response to a previous post by a given poster,
and are intended as a subtle tease. The subtleties may
be lost on some people however.

5) As far a being an "ALP stooli," as you called me.
I'm not even sure what that means.

I tend to stay away from labeling people, especially as
far as politics is concerned. Because my feelings tend to
change towards various parties, depending on their policies
at any given time.

I hope that clarifies things for you.

Cheers,

cont'd

Now back to the topic of this thread ...

An article from 'The Australian,' Feb. 23, 2009.
gives us the following:

"Malcolm Turnbull has made no inroads into Kevin Rudd's
overwhelming lead: Newspoll."

It continues with: "Malcolm Turnbull has failed to make any
inroads into Kevin Rudd and Labor's imposing lead over
the Opposition after a week of Liberal Party infighting.

With Liberal factional tensions simmering after Julie Bishop
quit as Opposition's shadow treasury spokeswoman, Labor
maintained its 16-percentage point lead over the Coalition,
58 to 42 per cent on a two party preferred basis.

The Prime Minister also maintained his dominance over the
Opposition Leader in the preferred Prime Minister stakes.

Mr Rudd (64 per cent) topped Mr Turnbull (20 per cent) -
a 44 point margin - as preferred prime minister."

With newspolls like this one, the Libs may well be looking
at selecting a new leader before the next election.
And I definitely would not be ruling Peter Costello out
just yet.

Costello as Lib leader would be a gift for Rudd.
He's carries a lot of baggage that would be easy to exploit.

Despite what some people think he still doesn't have the numbers so what do they know that everybody else doesn't?

Hewson's comments were spot-on.

Costello is the only hope for Australia. He is decent and clever.
Rudd is totally opposite, manipulative, gossip-type and cant make a single decision without asking Debus. And we know very well that Debus s...w up NSW quite well. Labor is not what it was once. Labor is corrupt, cant manage finance, we don’t trust them.. Turnbull? The only thing worst than Rudd-Debus is Turnbull-Debus. Remember two of them are friends. NSW corruption would suit far more Turnbull than current Kev747. With Turnbull things will get worse, he belongs to corrupt Sydney Circle, would never investigate what’s going on in courts... I think we are in a big trouble. Go and see this website if you don't trust me. This is NSW in plain words

Belly no bets on this one, I agree that a late election this year is likely, particularly if the econ gets any worse.

I'm curious that you profess not to give a rats about who leads the Libs. and then want to push Turnbull. I never believed people would cop Rudd before his rise- so careful what you wish for.

Hockey is the only Lib front bencher who has any appeal for me, tho I don't think he's leadership material yet. Turnbull will never connect with working people. Nor Pyne. God help us all if the mad monk ever gets the gig. Bishop no.

Foxy, what an ungracious thing to say about Belly.