it was his call
at the time..he was the lib party

just as kevi...tried to do the same to the lab-rats
two party farce...party loyalty..is treason
those following the party line...serve special intrests
[of the party]..[not the people]

we have adopted..demonic-autocracy...just like the yanks
gillard/and the tony-abort..are trying the same thing
more of intrest..is the joe hockey-play

if he gets silenced..or sells-out..its game over
[ok i know...just to get..party nomination..you gotta sell-out]

we get the govt we earned
[the clever thing by john..was adopting a perversion..of any policy...the lab rats..tried to get going]...[made the lab-rats...a policy free-zone]

even so...that...cap and trade..was first pushed by jonny
then the lab-rat[kevi...took it up]...and then the facts underpinnjing...the non debaite..began to unravel

revealing it to be a money market scam
[who bought out the greens...lol..to pull it off]

but the grens...have ben revealed...simply via their addiction to the solar-INDUSTRY...even their soy -lattes...are grown on cleared amazonian rainforrest...

[noting home composting..is the 2 de highest cause 0f global warming]
ten times worse..than carbon-di/oxide

noting the special cleaner...BIG BUSINESS..uses to clean..the MASS-produced solar cells..is 100 times worse..!..than co2

noting further the GROSS..expenditures..subsidies on solar-cells
[at this expermental stage of development....
meaning those who got them...have bought..a soon to be obsolete product]

and worse..we geared industry up...to make more polution
bying them from overseas..[the only green-jobs..are putting them in]

we been conned,,by the 2 party farce...demonic auitocracy
poli-tricks..stinks

Howard hung on too long, he should have gone.
I often wounder what part his wife played in him staying.
Costello however would only have lost that election by a smaller margin.

Well, the real pity in having to suffer Howard, and Costello, for so long was that the ALP were such a spineless crew under Beazley, that they then elected that other chap, whose name escapes me, apparently with the assistance of Gillard, and then the elevating of Rudd to well beyond his abilities, and then treating him as if the clay was not already poking through his feet of gold.

So, should Howard have gone?

It's not worth thinking about really is it?

He didn't go, he stayed, and finally he managed to shame himself by losing both the election and his seat.

Hahahahahaha, what a total GOOSE!

Now, of course, we are back to a totally spineless ALP, run by someone with no original ideas whatsoever,and not a single person of 'ability' on the horizon to take over when she fails, shortly.

And while, thankfully, Costello is a no-show, we have a clueless Abbott and a hot air merchant in Hockey, with a complete dunce in Bishop leading the 'alternative' government.

Given all that, maybe Howard was a high achiever, and deserved to hang in there?

Well said Pericles.

Pericles,

I agree, well said.

TBC,

I agree with your assessment.
Interestingly, although in the past I tended to be a bit of a political junkie, I was so demoralised by what was on offer during the last campaign that I stopped watching telly, listening to radio or reading papers - which is extraordinary for someone like me....but the thing is that I haven't returned, so I'm only getting smatterings of political info. For instance, I found out three days late that someone had tried to clock Johnny with a pair of shoes! (could be the highlight of the political year)
And I consider witnessing Howard lose his seat as well as the election through his utter egotistical cluelessness as one of the best examples of poetic justice I've come across. This is a man who had no interest in the immediate future of his party beyond his own tenure as Prime MInister.
I certainly think Costello thought that the coalition wouldn't get a sniff of government for at least two terms. Still, I think he gleaned much gratification in walking out as he did

Careful there Blue Cross, your vindictiveness is showing.

Yes Howard should have gone & didn't, however, unlike any of Labor leadership lot, who would have moved to a safer electorate, he didn't run out on his electorate to protect his own skin. He stayed & fought for his seat, even if his fight was severely compromised by his election requirements as leader.

When he lost he did not whine the way his Labor replacement did, when she lost the next time around.

In retrospect, it is obvious that he is the best PM we have had in at least 30 years. What's more he had guts. He went to an election with a GST policy, a policy Keating wanted, but did not have the guts to implement, even from power, let alone carry to an election. It was that guts that was to cost him his seat.

I just wish we did have Costello to fall back to. He may be a mere shadow of Howard, but he is head & shoulders above anyone else in either party right now, & had a good teacher.