I think its wise for Hockey to express what he actually believes
in a religious sense, if he's got plans for the top job.

I don't think that Australians would vote for a religious extremist
(other then runner and a couple of his friends :) )

Abbott still believes that he is PM material, but he's shown himself
to be too deep in the pocket of the Catholic Church when it comes
to Govt, so I don't think people would vote for him.

So yup, I think that Hockey has potential to replace Turnbull,
when the time comes. Turnbull could be his treasurer.

Er, Cornflower - this thread's about Joe Hockey and whether he should be expelled from the Liberal Party because he's not a raving Christian fundy, as the idiot OP apparently desires. It's not about Andrew Bartlett, nor your obsession with Bob Brown.

It's good to see that we can agree that Hockey appears to be OK for a Liberal. I wouldn't want him as PM, but he's certainly the pick of the less than stellar Opposition ranks.

C J Morgan

Of course it is relevant, you continually make it known that you are are a card carrying watermelon and here you are commenting on a senior member of another political party, 'fundies' and so on.

You are just avoiding the subject of Andrew Bartlett, which is understandable.

Talking about religion, it was refreshing to see that Bob Brown made it a number one priority to come up with a policy on prayers for the opening of parliament - he wants 30 seconds of silence instead.

Now if only the Greens can get it together to have a policy on those less important planks of their platform such as sustainability.

Correction- my post of 3:44:49pm should have read. "Bartlett as some may recall, disgraced himself by taking a bunch of bottles of wine".

Seems to me that Cornflower's doing everything she can to deflect attention from Joe Hockey and the religious right of the Liberal Party, the ostensible subjects of this discussion.

Of course, if she wants to bitch about politicians from other parties she should observe the forum rules and start her own thread.

Wait, wait, wait.

Let me get this straight, Cornflower.

In the gay marriage thread you're leaping, twisting, dissembling, dodging, attacking, and doing everything else you can to avoid giving CJ an answer to his extremely simple question, and now you're trying to turn a Joe Hockey thread into an Andrew Bartlett thread by justifying a series of peculiar non-sequiturs with the bland assertion that they're relevant, despite a complete lack of connection or rationale.

Do you hope to be regarded as a serious commentator on this site, or have you looked at Runner and One Under God and said, "Yes! THAT is the standard I'm aiming for!"?

King Hazza- "And I'm saying this as someone who DESPISES religious politicians- and as such places every strongly religious party at the bottom of my ballot paper-"
Yes indeed, just as I do!

Since hearing about Joe Hockey's bizarre desire to give a talk on his views of a Christian life on Q and A the other night, I am no longer interested in him as a politician- and I used to think he was a breathe of fresh air in politics.

He is now nearly as bad as Abbott (small regurge- excuse me!).

Runner- " The Liberal party has never been God's party as such."
Well, amen to that Runner, and I pray that no Political Party ever be known as God's party.