Yeah hard to find people that defend Abbott apart form a few die hards here on HC and on his twitter and facebook page but it seems even those are fake paid posters. Gillard was accused of having a big spin doctor team, apparently Abbott has an even bigger one.
I don't know how much the labor party is behind the anti Abbott campaign but there is a lot of it, to date the Abbott and the Lib's have been largely ignoring and shrugging it off but they can only do so for so long.