Kevin Rudd for PM

[sptrawler]

While his presentation was far better and more concise than that of Julia Gillard, it's still the same old nonsense in terms of non-answers and trying to get away with bare faced lies.

In relative terms, the electorate will see this as a greater problem for Labor regardless of who is leading.

Kevin Rudd reborn won't be the messiah regardless of what some would like to dream.

I agree with you doc, everyone is high fiving at the moment.
Give it 10 days of that 'dick' on t.v and everyone will remember why they hated him.lol

The goon show rolls on, the only upside is Swan has been written out of the show.

The real comical bit is Garret shot his feet off, by walking, I heard Gillard couldn't chuck him out earlier.

 

[IFocus]

I can't believe people see Rudd as a serious leader. Cannot people see through his rhetoric ((in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.). He is cannon fodder and the lesson he failed to learn last time is humility, though egocentric he may always be.

Labor don't want Kev but the hard heads weighted up the damage of a Gillard election and have rolled the dice.

The game is to limit the future damage a Abbott government will do to Australia and the Labor hard heads believe its serious.

 

[wayneL]

Labor don't want Kev but the hard heads weighted up the damage of a Gillard election and have rolled the dice.

The game is to limit the future damage a Abbott government will do to Australia and the Labor hard heads believe its serious.

Damage?

A bit hard to damage something already FUBARed by Rudd/Gillard/Rudd.

The coalition will pull back Australia from the edge of the abyss, as they have always had to do when Labor screwed things up.

 

[drsmith]

The game for Labor was to limit the future damage an election wipe out that Julia Gillard's leadership would have inflicted on the party.

The character references given to Kevin Rudd by his party colleagues during his time in exile says it all.

 

[sptrawler]

The game is to limit the future damage a Abbott government will do to Australia and the Labor hard heads believe its serious.

What do you mean the Royal Commission into unions.lol

 

[nioka]

Self centered
Self indulgent
Self serving
Manipulative

Who really treats the general public with contempt
That he can manipulate you and I just as he manipulates
Everything else around him.

Spoilt college boy who works behind closed doors
And will stab you in the back if it benefits his position.

Labor deserves him as a leader
Australia DOESNT

For one minute I thought you were describing Abbott.

But then again maybe you are.

 

[IFocus]

For one minute I thought you were describing Abbott.

But then again maybe you are.

Nioka good to see you still have a pulse hope you are well, just wish I had your witt

 

[Julia]

Hate him if you like, but he is charasmatic, his performance in Parliament today left the opposition floundering and his words were loaded with clear meaning that will strike a cord with the electorate. The big egos pumped up are hard to assail.

Oh lord, explod, what an example of seeing what you want to see!
Rudd has always been big on the rhetoric. It is as hollow as his soul.
He even had the insensitivity today in Question Time to beseech the Parliament to be "kinder, more gentle".
This following yet another Labor assassination which was carried out in the bloodiest possible way.
Why you can't see through this shallow apology for a human being is beyond me.

My tip, he will call the election soon and win it. Interview on sbs24 today with Ray Morgan was revealing in this way and I feel he (Morgan) would lean to the right. People today are concerned with job losses and high mortgages, they love a big show of confidence and Rudd will provide it.

You are allowing your hopes to run away with you. However, you do get it right when you refer to "a big show of confidence". Rudd has that in spades. It's the foundation that's entirely missing.

Further, how anyone could even consider voting for a Party which in its three years of tenure has shown itself to be made up of members nursing vitriolic hatred for one another, rapid change of leader when the polls look bad, and zero compunction in summarily dismissing its own.
To think that anyone would agree to allow such a rabble of self indulgent flawed individuals to actually govern the country is incredible.

That's not charisma. Ask any warm-blooded woman if they'd like to have him to dinner.

Bill Clinton - that's charisma. Rudd = geek.

+1. Charisma and Rudd? Not even in hell.

I can't believe people see Rudd as a serious leader. Cannot people see through his rhetoric ((in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.). He is cannon fodder and the lesson he failed to learn last time is humility, though egocentric he may always be.

+1.

Last night Bunyip commented on being thankful for being in future spared Julia Gillard's grating voice.
I mentally agreed reading his comment. But after just half a day of Mr Rudd's prissy, patronising, egocentric tones, I'd welcome back even the shrill tones of Ms Gillard.

 

[sptrawler]

It is good to see Rudds head swelling again and cutting off the blood supply.lol,lol

Now he is driving the BIG CHAIR again he is postulating again, magic the anti clockwise syphon will accelerate.IMO

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-...-fresh-uncertainty-over-election-date/4785770

Kevs big head, will explode again, just wait and watch.

 

[Calliope]

Last night Bunyip commented on being thankful for being in future spared Julia Gillard's grating voice.
I mentally agreed reading his comment. But after just half a day of Mr Rudd's prissy, patronising, egocentric tones, I'd welcome back even the shrill tones of Ms Gillard.

And every time we turn on ABC radio we are going to subjected to this until election day. It is nauseating. I suppose that one blessing of radio is the we don't have to watch the boof-head with it's little chin and prissy mouth trying to pretend he is a messiah.

 

[bellenuit]

I thought Christopher Pyne's comment that Rudd had used his attack dogs to bring down Gillard rather silly. Attack dogs convey an image of snarling dogs that are trying to get at someone to tear them to pieces but are being held back on a leash. Hardly an appropriate analogy. Rudd worked much more subtly in the background and even to the last minute no one was sure whether there was a challenge on or not.

The coalition needs to quickly get their act together on how they should approach Rudd. Pyne screaming his mouth off before he has engaged his brain may not work anymore and may be counterproductive.

 

[drsmith]

The Rudd relief rally has not been enough to get Labor's head above water,

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...n-course-for-election-win-20130628-2p0xv.html

It will be interesting to see what's next in the plan,

Key elements of Ms Gillard's carbon tax - including whether to fasttrack the shift from a fixed price to a floating price - will be examined as soon as Mr Rudd's new cabinet meets next week.

And senior Labor sources have told The Australian Mr Rudd will reverse some of the cuts to the welfare payments of single parents and commit to an in-principle pledge to increase Newstart, in a radical departure from the Gillard government's welfare agenda.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...r-being-sworn-in/story-fn59niix-1226671125251

 

[drsmith]

The answer to his question is simple.

Off the rails.

 

[Calliope]

The Rudd relief rally has not been enough to get Labor's head above water.

Asked if Labor could win the September 14 election under Mr Rudd, 56.9 per cent responded no, while 30.2 per cent said yes.

The only question now for the bookies is; by how much?... anywhere in to range 10-25 I would say.

I love Moir's cartoon Doc. It says it all.

 

[db94]

He will want the election to be early as possible. The alternative always looks better. Now they have him, give it a few weeks and people will realise what hes really like. Watching him talk on TV makes me feel sick, hes a lion in a sheep's suit. Its still the same Labor party, just a different leader.

 

[AAA]

The Rudd relief rally has not been enough to get Labor's head above water,

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Interesting how close the preferred PM polling is.

Mr 'popular' Rudd 51.6%.

Compared to

Mr 'unpopular' Abbott. 48.4

Just think what a few weeks of seeing Rudd on the TV every night wil do to that equation.

 

[drsmith]

He will want the election to be early as possible. The alternative always looks better. Now they have him, give it a few weeks and people will realise what hes really like. Watching him talk on TV makes me feel sick, hes a lion in a sheep's suit. Its still the same Labor party, just a different leader.

I suspect his promises will be along the lines of a reduced carbon tax (early transfer to an ETS ?), a do something about the boats he started, some extra low/middle class end welfare and a big warm trust me, I've changed and so has Labor.

Then it's off to the polls, quick smart.

 

[Calliope]

When the recycled bull turns up all the females desert the Alpha female's court and start courting the recycled bull.

Gillard supporters, including Wayne Swan, Stephen Conroy, Peter Garrett, Joe Ludwig, Greg Combet, Craig Emerson and Stephen Smith have, since Wednesday's ballot, either quit the ministry or politics entirely. Prominent female ministers - including Gillard backers Tanya Plibersek, Jenny Macklin and Kate Ellis - have stayed on Mr Rudd's frontbench despite decrying his vicious undermining of Ms Gillard as prime minister.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...he-men-step-down/story-fn59niix-1226671121428

 

[drsmith]

Interesting how close the preferred PM polling is.

Mr 'popular' Rudd 51.6%.

Compared to

Mr 'unpopular' Abbott. 48.4

Just think what a few weeks of seeing Rudd on the TV every night wil do to that equation.

A interesting question there will be if someone gets under his skin.

He had a blue tie then too.

 

[drsmith]

Has Kevin57 already lost the plot ?

This sounds like desperate stuff,

Mr Rudd said Australia needed "cool hands on the tiller" when dealing with Indonesian relations.

"What I am talking about is diplomatic conflict. But I am always wary about where diplomatic conflicts go," he said, before referring to the 1962-66 Indonesia-Malaysia conflict.

"Konfrontasi with Indonesia evolved over a set of words, and turned into something else.''

Pressed on the claim, Mr Rudd suggested the opposition's boats policy could lead to a naval showdown.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...rm-plan-deadline/story-fn9qr68y-1226671379678