brutal

I prefer, the Emperor has no clothes.

 

Cricket just seems so inappropriate for John Howard, even though he is a cricket tragic. Rudd seems to favour the BBQ. The Government Gazette may have had its fill.

 

But I suspect I’m right. The Emperor really does have no clothes. Try as he might Howard hasn’t moved support for Rudd within the electorate.

 

The Aboriginal abuse issue dominated headlines, but has been dismissed by the majority of the population as a vote buying exercise. Well duhh. The Tampa might have gone but not the public’s memory. 30% of his own supporters doubted Aboriginal children were Howard’s concern.

 

That was then – you should see the Emperor’s latest offering. Styling to today’s look, came his debut on youtube. I’m sure it was well intentioned, but really, to talk about climate change?

 

Most of the people that bother to look won’t care that Howard says he’s a climate change realist; they’ve seen nothing to change their view that he’s a climate change skeptic that’s been dragged kicking and screaming into a debate he has to have.

 

If the Howard government really is concerned at their inability to claw back the polling gap on Rudd, gimmicks like youtube won’t do it. The Aboriginal issue should be a salutary lesson that this is a public that’s increasingly more cynical. The Libs have to wake up to the fact that they’re their own worst enemy. And it’ll get worse.

 

The Libs have fawned and preened over the Emperor’s finest … er well … you get my drift. A cobbled together broadband plan in reaction to Labors effort, the conversion from climate change skeptic to climate change realist, a grand plan to rescue a generation of Aboriginal children that have only ever known a Howard government, all dismissed by the voter. Maybe they see what I see.

 

Now throw in Brendan Nelsen’s “we’ve got to look after the oil, oh sorry, it’s not about oil”. And suddenly even a blind man can tell there’s something wrong.

 

Rudd didn’t have to say a word about Iraq. Hell, we all know the drill. But we got drilled anyway. It always ends up as a downer … sorry with A Downer. Queue Alexander the outraged. If the party pollsters haven’t figured out the public have heard it, and either buy or don’t buy it, then someone should pass on the definition of insanity. Those that bought, already vote Liberal, those that didn’t have had a gutsful of being told how wrong they are.

 

But I digress. I’d just said how this would get worse for Howard. His advisors will look at a solid baseline of support for Rudd and think the only way left to attack, is to attack Rudd. That will be a mistake unless they are offering something real as an alternative.

 

All that’s left to convince me this is a Howard government destined for disaster is for Costello to bring out the “L” plates. Bringing out policy with real “fabric and substance” would be better.

 

I look forward to the barrage of personality attacks on Kevin Rudd the next few weeks will bring, almost as much as I look forward to the Prime Minister’s next styling release. Did I sound sincere?

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