Hasbeen, no just trust me, he is going to be replaced as is Gillard.
Your victory should be at the hands of some leader who can count.
Our enemy's play no part in our election.
Our Friends little.
It is those we are yet to win that matter.

Talking about vindictiveness.
Lexi,
You've lost me on this one. Where is the vindictiveness in my assertion ?

Dear Individual,

I can't help you.

It appears you have a perception problem
if after re-reading your previous post you
still don't get it.

Dear Hasbeen,

I take it that you're simply stirring now.
Because someone of your intelligence -
can't be serious.

Lexi

You wrote:

>>..what you're proposing in the interests of "science," can't really be qualified as "science," but more of a "gamble." >>

All experiments are gambles. Until you do the experiment you can't know whether, or not, your hypothesis is correct.

You wrote:

>>Because all the odds indicate that a win for Mr Abbott is a loss
for everybody else.>>

That's precisely the hypothesis we're testing. You may be right. You may in your own mind feel 100% certain that you're right.

But until we do the experiment we cannot really be sure.

Might I add that I'm reasonably sure that a win for Gillard would also be a loss for every one else. In my case at least there's some experimental proof. She's proved hopeless.

But in the case of Abbott we're still in the realm of guesswork.

Dear Steven,

I won't ask you how has the PM proven to be hopeless
because obviously I don't find that to be the case.
First of all she was able to form a government when
Mr Abbott given the same conditions was unable to
do so. The PM's minority government was able to pass
numerous bills despite the toxic environment and
overwhelming and negative and obstructive Opposition
who to this day have no viable policies on which they
can be judged and they rely on negativity and scare
tactics and slogans ("scrap the tax," "stop the boats")
to gain support.

To be able to conduct any experiment one needs some
vital ingredients to make it work.
To date from Mr Abbott - we have not seen
any realistic ingredients with which we can conduct your
experiment.

To toss him off the cliff just to see if he can fly
logic dictates that this would
need some explaining in the scientific community.
But then from my observation of some of our electoral
pool - there doesn't appear to be a great deal of logic.
Anyway, as I stated in a previous post - I'll leave
you to your "science." Have fun.

still don't get it.
Lexi,
hang on a minute here. Just because attention is drawn to a fact which is unpleasent & not to your liking doesn't make it vindictive. You on the other hand continue without any basis other than prejudice to knock a potentially good leader before he gets to prove himself. That is vindictive.