The Australian Federal Election 2010 Thread

[JGK]

Had to put this somewhere - gold in every line:


Abbott 'poor man's John Howard': Keating
March 16, 2010 - 11:50AM

Former Labor prime minister Paul Keating has launched a scathing attack on Tony Abbott accusing the opposition leader of being an "intellectual nobody" without policy ambition.

"If Tony Abbott ends up the prime minister of Australia, you've got to say God help us," he told ABC Radio on Tuesday.

Mr Keating described Mr Abbott as the "poor man's John Howard" who was regarded by many of his Liberal colleagues as their "resident nutter" when he arrived in federal parliament in 1994.

"It was bad enough having the real John Howard ... at least Howard was a militant, aggressive conservative driving in reverse through the rear-vision mirror."

Mr Abbott was an "intellectual nobody and no policy ambition".

On the other hand his predecessor Malcolm Turnbull had an articulated, intelligent, moderate, thought-out conservative position.

Mr Keating said the Rudd government deserved to be re-elected on its reaction to the global recession alone, saving Australia from an "economic holocaust" that had massively crunched the US and UK.

"You wouldn't trust this mob (the coalition) with a jam jar full of five-cent bits."

He described the opposition's finance spokesman Barnaby Joyce as a "junior Joh Bjelke-Petersen" who ran around making foolish economic pronouncements.

AAP

[skully]

Paul Keating - Politics version of Neil Harvey.

[tac]

Spot on, skull . . .

No, that's not Nigel's new picture book . .

[horace]

phurt at skully...keating has a sensational turn of phrase

"You wouldn't trust this mob (the coalition) with a jam jar full of five-cent bits."

He described the opposition's finance spokesman Barnaby Joyce as a "junior Joh Bjelke-Petersen" who ran around making foolish economic pronouncements."

[skully]

No h, he's just a cranky old blurter that gets wheeled out for some puss and bile when a headline is required.

[G.Wood]

It's a wonder a had the pillow out of his mouth long enough to make a statement

[skully]

Ya see, Keating may be a good stand up comedian, or outright arrogant abusive qunt but he is no way constructive in the slightest. Just a bag of festering pig bile.

Paul "Banana Republic - recession we had to have" Keating v Johnny "The God" Howard. No farkin contest. Country was in the best economic shape since Menzies under LJH.

Now we are back in the Labor welfare state black hole again.

[horace]

menzies blew the post war eco boom...it was hawke and keating who modernised the economy...ljh was another crummy pork barrell polly when it came to the economy..

personally I am not a fan of Krudds...too much of the sanctimonious born again Billy cracker for me...

the punch drunk turkey the libs have still thinks he is running for a job in the Vatican

[skully]

Seems the electorate is starting to wise up to that arrogant qunt Krudd. Approval rating has been taking a battering lately.

Cold shouldering one of his Labor Premiers clearly didn't impress anyone, nor supporting the spastic baldy electrocutor.

[JGK]

It's funny how the fascists can remember what an ALP Treasurer did over 20 years ago but can't recall how they saved the economy 12 months ago.

[embee]

It was the Libs that saved the economy ...Smerky Pete said so ....

APRA (which meant the financial institutions could only be semi cowboys ) and his surplus savings (and govt debt payoffs) which was the jar of 5 cent coins that Goose raided to "save Australia: from a recession

[skully]

Fascists? Is that someone who doesn't like faces?

Or faeces? Or just the Labor Party? Oh, same thing.

[Zat]

What a thrilling election this will be. A complete deadshit against a complete deadshit. It's why voting is compulsory.

[skully]

Hehehe, hard to argue. I'm hoping Abbott is just warming the seat until the Messiah steps up. Got no farkin idea who that might be at this stage.

How old are LJH's kids?

[JGK]

What a thrilling election this will be. A complete deadshit against a complete deadshit. It's why voting is compulsory.

Sage.