Chris,

Quite funny, really.

On the one hand, we've got a man strong on rhetoric (what else wins an election?) and on the other we have a man who's been going out of his way not to say too much - because of his penchant for foot-in-mouth (although I have a feeling he won't be able to keep up that charade for too much longer)

Interesting times

Poirot,

They've stuck a new talking head on the rotting corpse of Labor. How long does it take for everyone to remember that the reason he was removed, was that he was an ego centric control freak, that gave Aus the 3 biggest deficits in history, wasted huge amounts of money on the BER debacle, the pink batts, started the boats crisis, and gave us a useless mining tax, along with a raft of other bad policies.

Poirot, I would vote for anyone other than Abbott.
Shadow Minister, as you probably remember, Rudd was unpopular with his party members, but quite popular with the Australian people.
Obviously, many of his party have changed their mind about Rudd.
Can you say the same about Abbott?

Yada, yada, yada, SM

Perhaps now Mr Abbott will find the impetus to actually say something of substance.

As in, he can't expect now to just glide into government - he's gonna have to start rowing!

It's easy to slam Abbott for not saying much of substance, but what have our ALP Members of Parliament had to offer? Their campaign to date (and it is a campaign, even if the official campaign hasn't been launched) has focused entirely on the notion that Australia will collapse under Abbott. They've been playing the 'better the devil you know' argument, and they've just replaced the devil we know.

Honestly, I've had enough of both sides. The LNP plays the devil's advocate and the perpetual nitpicker, while the ALP plays the dual games of fear and blame. The last election showed that policies before an election are meaningless after the counting is done; this one shows that they (both sides) are aware of that and couldn't be bothered coming up with any policies that are worth the paper they're written on until they've secured a term in government. Make no promises, and you can't be accused of lying.

Sorry, Otokonoko,

I suppose it's a bit rude to demand that an alternative leader shows some vision.

Let's face it, we all know how the game of politics is played - both majors wax and wane on policy initiative.

My point is that because of the dynamics alive regarding Gillard and the electorate, Mr Abbott has been allowed a free ride.

That's not healthy for domestic politics.