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The Daily Abbott

Abbott, success through misdirection.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-14/green-the-facts-wont-speak-for-themselves/4517146

If only, the argument goes, the Australian voting public could glimpse the abundant good works of this Government. If it could but feel the width of the legislation, the solidity of the economic management, the vaulting agenda of constructive social reform ... if voters could truly see these things, how could they contemplate any vote other than a Julia Gillard vote?

There may be a grain of truth in it. But probably a greater truth is that this Government is not much better or worse at spruiking its achievements than any other. The greater truth is that in assuming that the mere facts of its record should be enough to carry the political argument, this Government fundamentally misunderstands the question.

The slightly uncomfortable fact is that success in modern politics has precious little to do with the truth.

This should be obvious enough by now. The politics of the past several years is littered with misrepresentation taken as fact; with those same misrepresentations converted to potent political talismans.

The government is high debt. (Well, no ... ) We are staggering under cost of living pressures. (The facts suggest otherwise.) The Parliament is paralysed by the lack of an effective majority. (Nope.)

You get the drift.
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Yes, the truth is beaten with lies.
 
Any truth that might be there is lost in the filth that is Labor. Think Obeid, think lies, think Thompson, think Slipper, think boats, think MRRT, think cattle exports, think pink bats, think AWU, think poker machines, think Australia Day riots, think knifing Rudd, think .... think Gillard. Just think.

While many would like to blame Abbott for this countries and Labor's problems, the real problem is and always has been of their own making. Stuff-ups-in-chief are/were Gillard, Swan and Rudd. As it stands, their incompetence will hand Abbott power and make their own party (potentially) virtually irrelevant for years (perhaps a decade or more) to come.

I reckon Abbott would love to claim responsibility, even the Greens know what Labor seems not to:
Christine Milne
“The Greens will not add to the instability that Labor creates every day for itself.”
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Tony Abbott and Peter Credlin, a marriage made in Heaven.

TONY Abbott's office has vetoed his rival Malcolm Turnbull from replacing him on Channel Nine's Today Show after the Liberal leader dumped his regular spot.

In the latest example of the Coalition's "small target" strategy in the lead up to the election, Mr Abbott was missing from his breakfast slot on Friday.

After complaining that the Labor Party was "planting" negative stories about the Coalition in the Friday newspapers and then forcing Mr Abbott to cop the fallout on air, his office informed the program he would no longer appear weekly.

But when the Today show locked in the man he replaced as Liberal leader to replace him, Mr Abbott's office demanded Mr Turnbull withdraw from the arrangement.

Coalition insiders are deeply concerned that a media stumble by Mr Abbott remains one of the greatest threats to him ruining what many believe to be an unloseable election.

Paranoia has reached such heights that at a briefing of Coalition chiefs of staff in Canberra this week, Mr Abbott's chief of staff Peta Credlin told staff to stay off Twitter and watch out for waiters with recording devices, citing the covert recording of US Presidential candidate Mitt Romeny at a fundraiser.
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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...bails-on-tv-spot/story-fndo28a5-1226574519268
It's all big picture stuff, of course. Tony Abbott, master of the minutae of watching his back. :)

How does he manage the run up to the election? By being the perfect coward, or, as they say, a 'small target'. So small in fact, he never has to even face up to a difficult question, much less answer one. A big bully when he is after a woman, runs like a chicken when a question has to make him use some mental capacity.
 
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Newspoll
On the question of who would make the better prime minister, Ms Gillard’s support dropped seven percentage points to 35 per cent, its lowest since October 2011, while Mr Abbott’s support jumped five points to 43 per cent, his highest since September 2011.
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When asked to detail the Coalition’s costings for its climate change action policies, Tony said they had not been established yet.

$0 Tony, that's my guess.
 
Sceptic-PK said:
When asked to detail the Coalition’s costings for its climate change action policies, Tony said they had not been established yet.

$0 Tony, that's my guess.
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Let's hope so. Anything spent on the futile effort to stop climate change is an unmitigated waste of money.
 
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