Posted on 09/05/2011 2:46:56 PM PDT by naturalman1975
JULIA, resign. (When I drafted this column a month ago, friends in the ALP begged me not to run it. Not because of any profound dispute with the content but because "it might make things worse". Now, things couldn't be worse.)
Resign, Julia. Resign yourself to the fact you've failed. Resign yourself to the fact nothing you do has a desirable political effect. Resign yourself to the fact that no matter what you say, nobody listens. Resign yourself to the certainty that you're leading your party to electoral slaughter.
You are about to elect Tony Abbott. Resign. You led the coup against Kevin Rudd. Yes, you were coy about it, feigning reluctance. At least accept this simple fact. Had you said no to the conspirators, Rudd would still be in his job.
You were as responsible for his removal and humiliation as was John Kerr for Gough Whitlam's. And it's been a disaster. The most inept strategic move since the NSW branch started serial-killing its own premiers.
On radio that night I said: "The Labor Party has just committed suicide."
Despite the media gush about "the first woman prime minister" a vast number of ALP supporters were equally infuriated by an act they saw as unethical, cruel, stupid and unnecessary.
John Howard and I agree Rudd would have won the next election, just as Howard himself recovered from equally grim polls to win again and keep on winning.
Until Rudd - not Simon Crean, Kim Beazley or Mark Latham - until Rudd defeated him.
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And let the record show that the excuses used by you and your fellow assassins were the policy failures that you Julia, you, pushed in both the full and kitchen cabinets. They were your policy failures as much as or more than his.
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When he turns on a Labor Prime Minister, it is saying something.
I don't want Julia Gillard to resign - I want her to call an election. If she won't do that, I want her in office because it will destroy the Labor Party.
Rudd - it would be a case of the lesser of two evils. Better a semi-competent moderate socialist as PM than an incompetent hard-left 'former' communist.
Rudd - doesn’t he pick his nose then eat it? No, really?
I see Oz has their own socialist version of worse and worst between Gillard and Rudd that the US has between Obama and H Clinton. In your case, the proof was in the pudding with both having served as PM. In our case, Hillary has not had the opportunity to stake out her position as worse or worst. Good luck, over there.
They stayed right ahead of W's reelection.
They went left ahead of McCain's run.
“You are about to elect Tony Abbott. Resign.”
AHHHH!!! The sound of sweet despair!
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