Comments on: A wafer-thin Coalition? http://guyberes.com/2008/12/06/a-wafer-thin-coalition/ Reflections on social democracy, economics, the media, and spin in an age of incorrigible cynicism. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:54:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Guy http://guyberes.com/2008/12/06/a-wafer-thin-coalition/#comment-4317 Guy Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:29:43 +0000 http://guyberes.com/2008/12/06/a-wafer-thin-coalition/#comment-4317 I think you're probably right, although if the polls keep on keeping on the way they have been, I am sure that folks on the Opposition benches are going to get skittish. Admittedly, its a tough ask ahead of the Coalition. I am sure that if a "Rudd Years" style retrospective is done a decade from now, a lot of Libs would be coming out admitting that back in 2008 they thought knocking Labor out after just one term was going to be a close to impossible mission, regardless of who was leading. I think you’re probably right, although if the polls keep on keeping on the way they have been, I am sure that folks on the Opposition benches are going to get skittish.

Admittedly, its a tough ask ahead of the Coalition. I am sure that if a “Rudd Years” style retrospective is done a decade from now, a lot of Libs would be coming out admitting that back in 2008 they thought knocking Labor out after just one term was going to be a close to impossible mission, regardless of who was leading.

]]> By: Dave Bath http://guyberes.com/2008/12/06/a-wafer-thin-coalition/#comment-4313 Dave Bath Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:26:55 +0000 http://guyberes.com/2008/12/06/a-wafer-thin-coalition/#comment-4313 Turnbull gives the libs a hope of moving from the nasty Howard way, and from the vacuous Nelson way, neither of which are politically viable at the moment. If the libs don't get behind Turnbull, if only because his vision offers their best chance of re-election, then they are too stupid and deserve to be slaughtered come the next election. The problem is that the neocons in the libs might be pushing for a Costello (or worse, Minchin) leadership..... too horrible to contemplate. Let's face it, the Libs have to get back those voters in the centre, and Turnbull certainly has a brain, and has not proven himself a nasty piece of work... so he is probably their only hope. Turnbull gives the libs a hope of moving from the nasty Howard way, and from the vacuous Nelson way, neither of which are politically viable at the moment. If the libs don’t get behind Turnbull, if only because his vision offers their best chance of re-election, then they are too stupid and deserve to be slaughtered come the next election.

The problem is that the neocons in the libs might be pushing for a Costello (or worse, Minchin) leadership….. too horrible to contemplate.

Let’s face it, the Libs have to get back those voters in the centre, and Turnbull certainly has a brain, and has not proven himself a nasty piece of work… so he is probably their only hope.

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