I've always said, anyone who actually wants this job should be immediately declared ineligible.
Bob Carr has been described as 'the reluctant leader'; according to his own diary he thought leading the NSW state Labor party would be the end of his career. Apparently minister for foreign affairs has been his life long ambition.
It seems power is an addiction to political players. The 'faceless men' will do anything to get it, and anything to keep it.
It's becoming more and more apparent that the Labor power brokers are desperate for a Messiah, and -for various reasons- neither Gillard or Rudd fill the bill.
Bob Carr has been nominated to fill a Senate vacancy. As the Prime Minister must be a member of the Lower House, Gillard must feel extra safe, on top of Carr's famous 'reluctance'.
Will it be enough to save Gillard, if she continues to stumble and fail to capture the hearts of the voters?
How long before Labor insiders and the Media start touting Bob Carr as Labor's 'Last, Best Hope'?
A week? A month? 6 months? A year?
I've set up a quick poll, just for fun.
Cast your vote at;

http://thecomensality.com/avasay/bob-carr-for-pm/feed

Labour are so desperate for power its a wonder they have not tried to bribe Tony Abbott to switch parties.

I don't know about that Runner.

However as they are so in love with Turnbull, I wish they would just go buy him. I have never heard of a banker who was not for sale, & even he could not be worse than their last few leaders.

Carr, within three months will be well respected, he is a good man.
Read his history and books by him and about him.
NSW wanted him the party wanted him in Canberra as leader.
A healing must take place, but may have to wait till after the lemmings march behind Gillard.
A Carr leadership while healing is not going to happen, unless faction heads let it.

Your instincts are sharp Runner but I don't think it will be the used Carr (with an 18 month warranty). He'll no doubt sit "diagonally & ideologically" to the next challenger (which is inevitable) as this has always been his approach to anything and everything. His reluctance to leadership is not fuelled by coyness of any inhibitions about himself but rather an over blown sense of his own intellectual prowess. His love of American political culture is a convenient distraction from his own inability to understand or Australia's political culture and this can be said of many senior ex politicians – many of whom weazled their way through the rank and file doing the 80's and 90's. The US model of liberal democracy with all its faults was for them the vanguard of any first world aspirations and nothing else would do. Carr will be too busy sniffing the backsides of US diplomats to give a hoot about what is happening here domestically. He'll be throwing back Budweiser’s with Andrew Peacock and Beazley in a sleazy Washington bar, all of them loudly complimenting each other on being smarter than they actually are. Steven Smith should have got the job, but they opted for the kosher pseudo intellectualism of the used Carr. He won't challenge, he just got his gold watch job.

Apologies, my post was meant to address the thread by Grim, :