A week ago the Libs looked like a rabble, then they spent the week proving it and now, after a bit of a break and a nice night’s sleep they wake up an elect TONY ABBOTT as their leader?
Barry Cassidy summed it up with Annabel Crabb on the rather extravagant ABC coverage of the #spill; the election of Abbott is going to give the media plenty to talk about and judging by the level of coverage afforded to the election of the man in red speedos, they could well be right.
Surely though, tomorrow, or the day after or sometime in the very near future the rest of the Liberal Party are going to look back at what happened today and in the last week and ask themselves the very obvious question, what have we done? It might be the moment when Tony Abbott answers yet another question on climate change, or it could be another day when Tony resurrects the ghost of Howard’s Work Choices, maybe it will be when the Mad Monk starts preaching about the rights of unborn children; really it must happen unless the entire rank and file of the Australian Liberal Party are stark raving mad.
And then what? Will they look back on today and wonder? Will they pull out the recording of Malcolm Turnbull where he displayed his political stature in the face of incredible adversity and compare that to the talking mechanical robot they chose instead and say to themselves “we were wrong”? Probably not, since honesty isn’t a particularly useful commodity in a politicians toolkit.
Bon voyage good ship Australian Liberal Party. Watch out for the icebergs.
