Dear John
You have been a magnificent servant for our great party and the Australian people. But NOW is the time to resign before it is too late. You now cannot win but Peter can and will win. Peter has the charisma and financial no how to continue with great panache to win the hearts and minds of all Australians. He ties Kevin Rudd up in knots and makes him look ridiculous which you cannot do. So John Winston please step aside now and aloow Peter call the next election. We have achieved much with the GST. We supported America in Iraq, We sold Telstra, We have been successful in putting Trade Unions in a bad light with the electorate, We have protected small business. We are succeeding in moving in on indigenous territory to protect their offspring. We have put in to place plans for Nuclear Power Stations to combat Global Warming and climate change. We were successful in bringing in gun control. We ave tightened our borders and security. We have tightened up Welfare and forced bludgers out of the dole queues. We have given hope to disabled people by ensuring that they can work alongside non disabled people. and much much more.

Are you serious?. This is sarcasm, right?.

"...magnificent servant for our great party..."

*snicker* *snort*

You're not concerned Howard promised GST wouldn't happen, then he pushed it through?....jeees that's just the TIP of the iceberg.

This can't be serious.
What does this union-bashing founder member of the HR Nicholls Society, who models his parliamentary performance on Paul Keating (but without the charm) and is affectionately known as "Captain Smirk (even by his own associates), actually stand for?

Besides selling out the country to overseas and his big-end-of-town supporters' interests, what does he actually done for most of us?
Taking economic credit for China's resources needs and telling us we've never had it so good doesn't mean much to the growing number of the homeless and bankrupt.

The percentage of GDP that now flows directly out of the economy as dividend payments to overseas owners is greater than the interest payments on the debt he "inherited" and many national assets are now gone forever into the bargain.

Other than his constant self-congratulatory back-slapping and a token gesture of support for the happy-clappers during the last election, we don't know where he stands on anything else. Iraq? Global warming? Foreign Trade? Immigration? Any opnion on anything would help.

His reluctance to even challenge for the job he believes he is entitled to shows that he is either too gutless, or he prefers others to beg him to do it. Is this a lack of personal ambition or a self-recognition of his own inability I wonder?

His Party's legacy will be one of lost opportunities, infrastructure decay and social division and he will be the ultimate scapegoat for any post-election fallout that may occur.

This has to be a joke.

Anyone with this much knowledge of what Howard has apparently done "for" us would also have to know that Costello is as popular as flatulence in a crowded elevator. He doesn't stand a chance.

I can't stand the entity that currently calls itself the Liberal Party and hope they suffer a massive loss at the election.

So I join the call. Yeh, come on Howard, step aside and let Captain Smirk have a go. You know you want to.

Although i greatly dislike our white dwarf Johnny Howard, i am finding myself hoping that he will win this elction so that when we experence a recession (a we inevitably will in the near future)the Liberal Party - in particular John Howard - will be forced to take the blame and bare the concequences of what their actions have done; instead of another party gaining power just in time to be blamed for everything that goes wrong, and then preparing ground for the Liberal Party to be re-elected to 'save the day'; as has happened several times through out our history. of course it is a little worrying as to how Howard would deal with a recession.....

Now we have two great Statesmen arm in arm with the world at their feet influencing other top world leader this is a really great day for Sydney and Australia. To determine our future to better mankind to have the benefit of American technology within our shores. To have many American soldiers protecting us against an Iranian Nuclear threat. For China and Russia to purchase as much uranium as they can buy so that they can educate Iran to help Iran to build many peaceful Nuclear Power Stations before Iran runs out of oil. This APEC meeting will go down in history as something special which will be an improvement on Kyoto where it will not damage the worlds Industry. China will be able to take short cuts and help themselves to West Australian Gas fields. We may even get to grips with Japan to stop them butchering whales. Also place embargoes on Burma to restore human rights to that country with the help of China and Russia. We all hope that Peter Costello will be at the summit so that he will continue when he takes over from John Howard