> "fasgnadh" yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:4837aca1$0$17509$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...

>> There seems to be two Australia s:
>>
>> The Usenet fairyland and the Real Australia
>>
>> In the real world, PM Rudd is soaring in popularity,
>> random sample surveys show he is more popular than
>> any other politician in history, except for the
>> Bob Hawke at his peak, before he became Lothario in
>> terry toweling and lost the womens vote. (People
>> loved
>> Hazel more than Bob the bodgie)
>>
>> But in the strange fantasyland of Usenet, the usual
>> suspects,
>> the lonely unemployed with all day to waste, the
>> social
>> misfits and moral defectives, the racists, bigots
>> and
>> anti-semites of all descriptions, wail and rail that
>> the ALP
>> is doing no more than the Libs to keep prices down
>> on petrol,
>> that they feel betrayed and that it will all end
>> badly. B^)
>>
>> We could just ignore them, they are a far less
>> significant
>> demographic than the talk-back mob.
>> (And the tory media, in it's relentless pursuit will
>> probably
>> do more to besmirch the governments reputation).
>>
>> But I prefer to rub their noses in their defeat and
>> their ongoing political impotence. ;-)
>>
>> People who listen to the news know that petrol
>> prices
>> rise because international oil prices have.
>>
>> They lived through 11 interest rate rises under
>> Howard and
>> know that it will take more than six months to turn
>> around
>> a problem the tories did NOTHING to stop, everything
>> to
>> make worse, and now only offer more of the same..
>> FALSE
>> PROMISES: "We will keep interest rates at record
>> lows"
>>
>> Rudd was careful not to make false promises he
>> couldn't keep.
>>
>> Government can NOT fix everything, although tory
>> socialists
>> spent a lot of taxpayer money ensuring that people
>> like
>> Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch could afford a baby and a
>> new home!
>>
>> As the economic problems of inflation, massive debt,
>> rising
>> oil prices and the sub-prime crisis worsened, the
>> ALP might
>> have preferred to keep the tax cuts, and take more
>> pressure
>> off inflation, but they kept their PROMISE, while
>> Howard and
>> Costello never did!
>>
>>
>> The Australian people know this, and they have
>> rewarded honesty
>> by pushing Rudd's popularity to soaring heights, and
>> the ALP
>> has gone UP and the Liberal party DOWN, under their
>> respective
>> leaders.
>>
>> That is the reality. The voters are at least 6(%%
>> smarter than
>> the over-represented tory tools in usenet).
>>
>> Thats why i rarely reply when they retreat into a
>> huddle to lick
>> each other's wounds and tool-fondle, whining
>> 'fasgnadh is just a ..',
>> "I agree" "me too" .. because, hey.. I'm the
>> MAJORITY.. B^)
>>
>> I'm one of the WINNERS! B^D
>>
>> I deal with the issues, realistically, and have the
>> track record of
>> not just COMMENTING on issues but PREDICTING
>> OUTCOMES.
>>
>> There are about a handful of us in Usenet who can
>> say that!
>>
>> Those who were right about Iraq. Those who were
>> right about the election, Those who opposed the
>> Taliban BEFORE S11, those who
>> campaigned about Peak oil being more important than
>> Climate Change!
>> Those who have opposed anti-semites consistently,
>> and yet still
>> been unafraid to criticise Israel, because they know
>> the difference!
>>
>> And all the whining, lying, apoplectic rage
>> spluttering,
>> posturing, populist nostrums and spin will not help
>> the Lieberals.
>>
>> They have a problem with their brand.
>>
>> Howard caused it with the Lies he began during the
>> Iraq war and
>> the Tampa crisis, and all the divisions he tried to
>> create
>> to cling onto POWER - divide et Empera!
>>
>>
>> Nelson really isn't helping. They should swap him
>> sooner than
>> planned for a new start.

>
> The cancer infecting conservative politics in
> Australia will take decades to remove, because it took
> decades to implant.
> You would remember Andrew Hay, Hugh Morgan, John
> Stone, Michael Kroger and of course Peter Costello.
> All these luminaries were champions of the "New
> Right", the shining path for upwardly mobile, well
> heeled and well educated conservatives heading towards
> the new millenium.
> They gained control of the Liberal Party at all levels
> throughout Australia, and in the process swept aside
> moderate, truly liberal voices like Viner, McPhee and
> Georgiou, the latter being the subject of the most
> recent vilification campaign by these forces in
> Victoria.

> Workchoices was the most obvious manifestation of the
> influence of these idealogues, and ultimately their
> dogmatic adherence to their ideology was their
> undoing, but in the process they have alienated
> mainstream Australia and unless there is a major
> reformation they face a lengthy period of irrelevance.
> Nelson is leader because the idealogues still hold
> sway in the federal parliamentary Liberal Party, and
> as recently as last week he was heard to say that
> Howard and Workchoices was right, and the Australian
> electorate wrong.
> There is no quick fix.