Poirot,
it's a proven method to fight fire with fire. Same goes for insipid, relentless attacks of ridicule by people who have nothing to contribute to the betterment of society. I mean how stupid does one have to be to condemn someone who hasn't yet done damage to the country yet vehemently defend a whole gang that literally put us on the road to ruin. I'd say not much sense involved there ?

Some of you seemingly have some strange ideas of the behaviour of catholics.

When I was a member of that member of that group, the font of all knowledge, a country town high school boy, everyone, well us anyway, knew that catholic school girls were all sexual animals.

If you could get onto one of them, from that school down the road, all your sexual fantasies would be fulfilled, I would have thought the boys would be the same.

We knew they were not oppressed & depressed as we were in such things. Why do you think Abbott is?

The sad part is that many here on OLO would prefer Abbott to behave like Bob Hawke. How blind can one be.

Hasbeen,

Well, yes,,,the Catholics have always embraced life with "esprit". One only needs to look at those Mediterranean long-tabled feasts enjoyed by family, friends and whole villages, with their wine, conversation and laughter to appreciate the spirit of life. Medieval man, immersed in Catholic doctrine, enjoyed the many feast and holy-days for an intensive roistering and general celebration of life. Not for them to delay their fulfillment for some time in the future - life was made to be enjoyed in the present.

It was the Protestant and Calvinist ideologies which introduced the more austere view of life - puritanism didn't spring from the Catholic paradigm.

individual,

Spin it how you like...your "fight fire with fire" metaphor amounts to hypocrisy if, in the first instance, you are finding fault with the weapon of choice (ie, ridicule and insult).

So the new play the man strategy from the ALP is to paint Abbott as a woman despiser. A guy with 1 missus and only daughters, talk about a birch for your own back.

Or is it his Catholicism and the archaic womb control dogma that comes with the faith that taints him, a dogma that gives value to our consciousness and so abortion is forbidden, hardly a hypocritical view, but a view not accepted by me personally I must say.

Or is it his attitude towards opposition female politicians, the ones who had to have the hide of a rhinoceros and the front of Rupert Murdoch to have passed pre selection, even the dainty little ones such as Gaillard who’s social birthright as the nurturing compassionate sex had her telling caucus the pensioners to get stuffed if they don’t vote for us. What dainty little petals is Abbott accused of deflowering with his misogynistic vitriol?

Given we are now in the “JOE GOEBBELS” character assassination propaganda phase could the Libs run a Gillard “hates children and the institute of marriage” campaign given her obvious disdain for both as exampled in her choice of career and puppy over marriage and children