Poirot thanks for an interesting thread asking a question that most can not answer.
Because the truth is extremely hard to avoid, he stands for very little of substance.
Few want to know but Tony Abbott remains leader of his party by the grace of Gillard.
She was unable to make him visible to the public.
They, sorry but true saw her as worse.
Now like a naked man trying to hide in a empty ten acre paddock he is is going to be exposed.
His hobby horse, no no no , and baseless charges we are broke and that climate change is crap are hanging around his neck like dead rats.
Stop the boats! that simplex statement has been bought by unthinking voters but not the fact he has no answers on how to do it.
Pyne And both ageing and fading Bishops, his member for Cook and that Mirabella woman, are in for hard times.
Truth is about to expose they are chanters of trivia, not politicians.
So? Poirot the question may be can Abbott stand,stand honest inspection.

"Why should Abbott's personal religious beliefs disqualify him from leading."?

They shouldn't and they don't...

Though I would start to get uncomfortable if he truly-ruly believed in transubstantiation.

Is he an antidisestablishment ex-seminarian?

The first action of the 2nd Rudd Government was to vote against the introduction of TPV's in the Senate this morning. The second action of the 2nd Rudd Government was this afternoon to vote for the Gillard Government's Union advocated changes to 457 visa's in the Lower House.

Rudd2-Gillard what is the difference? Just more of the same old useless cr-p.

I would have thought it was obvious that companies should advertise first in Australia before going to 457 Visas. We need to skill Australians and then use those skills. Why is the LNP so against this simple stipulation.

So with Labor you get union-influenced policies that work to keep Australians employed while with Liberals you get business-influenced policies that create unemployment but hand companies a cheap workforce who won't rock the boat even in the face of poor workplace conditions.

Mmm.... difficult choice, which one to choose.

Why does the religious stuff come up all the time. It is irrelevant to whether someone can do a good job as PM. Rudd is also religious. It is a non-issue.

seems like the wounded ladies could do with a little therapy today. Having totally failed idealogies over the last few years and being rejected by the masses the attacks on Abbott, Abbott, Abbott have commenced. What will it be like when/ if he comes to the PM.