Paul you do tend to keep good company and in my view are as bitter as the threads author.
You need to get a grip no words can change the fact your party is dying.
Poirot confirmation on display, re threads title.
Needed to answer but will now have a shower after leaving it.

Belly,

I don't blame you. Anyone in contact with the unions or Labor needs a shower to clean off the corruption and sleaze.

Come to think of it, SM, your threads are likely to engender a rapid response in the cleansing department also - full to the brim as they are with the obsessive expression of partisan derision.

Mr Abbott wants a clean campaign leading up to the next election.
After what he has done he is now running scared.
He has questions about that uni female to overcome before he can make any suggestions.
He says the campaign should not be negative. He should have thought about that years ago, but the election was supposed to be over two years ago.
Abbott has dug his own hole, so deserves whatever comes his way.
They should get about fixing their 70 billion black hole.

Belly, I'm not bitter. I love ya all. The way Labor luminaries are lining up at the ICAC, you going to have to sell tickets shortly, best side show in town. Eddie's back next week for another bit of 'hocus pocus'. Joe Tripodi must be jello, hasn't got a call up yet. Have you had a chance to invest in Joe's Ghanaian gold scheme (scam). That should be interesting when the you know what hits the fan.

579, Stop thinking Abbott's a misogynist, not true, he just don't like women, that's all. Do you think Abbott and Archie Pell are an item? They spend a lot of time together. Like another well known Liberal, who can't be named for ethical reasons, Tony likes to hang out with the boys.

SM, What about Fatty O'Barrel doing favours for young Jamie Packer. Do ya think there's a cheap Ferrari in it for Fatty, complements of a grateful lad. If a cafe at the Quay is worth a Honda, a casino got to be worth a Ferrari, don't you agree? If you can't cut and Paste correctly how you ever going to become a fully fledged minister. you'll always just remain the shadow of a minister, and we can't have that. lift your game son!

When he entered Parliament in 1994, Abbott described himself as “a junkyard dog savaging the other side”.

As a boxer in Oxford he had little technique but a brutal sense of attack, which he called “the whirling dervisher”.

His great political flaw is like that of his boxing, when he defeated his opponents with his "whirling dervish" attacks on them.

If his opponents had had better defence, they would have avoided his initial attacks, let him become exhausted and then picked him off, slowly and relentlessly.

Abbott places everything on attack and as such leaves himself wide open to dying a death of a thousand cuts. In all likelihood his term as leader will end in either tears or farce.

It seems his strategy was to relentlessly capitalise on the initial instability of a hung Parliament, make it totally unworkable and force an early election.

Now it appears that Gillard is fighting back and Abbott’s punched out and has really nothing to offer but a bunch of empty slogans that he can’t back up with solid policies. Meanwhile legislation is being passed and changes are being introduced and despite all the media predictions, Rudd hasn’t toppled Gillard.

He would have been better advised to come up with some solid policy alternatives long ago and built on them instead of constantly whining like Howard used to when in opposition.

Politics has changed in the last decade and voters have higher expectations.

Conservatives can't take votes based on negativity for granted anymore - as Romney and his Tea Party supporters recently found out.

Abbott's position may not be as safe as some would like to think it is.