Lexi,

Playing the racist card? run out of other ideas?

Yup I am racist against bludgers, human traffickers and economic refugees wanting to live off our taxes.

P,

Yup, a few years from the election, it is not always possible to complete everything promised, sometimes practicalities dictate an outcome that is not exactly what was promised, but meets the intention of the promise, such as BOF's CSG solution.

Core promises are Iron clad guarantees that cannot be broken without shredding one's credibility such as "there will be no carbon tax in a government I lead." and "There will be a surplus in 2013".

What ever I say about the man will upset some.
Some will claim I am biased.
Well yes I am, based on my understanding Tony Abbott, the man we are being sold today and the real /past one, I can not praise him, bias!
He once was just not a consideration for party leadership, he wanted it,his party thought that a joke.
His manifesto came out in the year before his rise.
He was the right man in the right place at the right time.
My party is quite often charged with moving away from its roots.
Liberals, maybe driven by their faithful pup Nationals, moved further right, Republican right right.
Climate change, the thought it is crap, rebutted by todays world wide facts, drove a Liberal Liberal out and a man who would, as he told independents, *do any thing but that* but may consider that! to be PM.
We the world, have moved on.
Republicans are desperate to retrieve their lost ground.
Abbott is living in a world that turned upside down as he reached for his prize.
Chanting negatives tell them any thing but nothing and lie,has him on thin ice.
We are a better country for that.

SM,

The issues are far more complex, but it will
continue to be difficult for you to see and
comprehend them because you insist on seeing
all discussions through a fixed ideological
viewfinder. It's sad really, because such
on-eyed bias is a triumph for negativity,
which is what Mr Abbott represents,
and this country has never needed a more
positive, open and compassionate approach to
important issues than now.

SM I understand, not easy for you to take.
Just a week ago you had the rails run and your only opponent was racing in the wrong direction, on three legs.
It has to be hard confronting Rudd and the truth in that short time.
Your party is a policy free zone.
Intent on negativity and random use of fear and loathing , it is stumped.
Well carry on old mate.
But watch the next few sets of polling and a tip!
Get you reasons ready, why Turnbull is no longer a twit.

Lexi, "this country has never needed a more positive, open and compassionate approach to important issues than now"

Just who do you reckon that might be? Please advise.

Because in another thread you have slammed PM Rudd and Labor for lacking compassion.

otb, Lex,

I'm not overly impressed with the bipartisan dog-whistling on refugees either.

But it doesn't alter the fact that Mr Abbott appears to be sounding a tad hollow now that people are actually giving him a shake.

The Opposition = a policy-free zone(apparently)