"What remains to be seen is whether Abbott will ever have anything to offer Australians, aside from the twin claims that life was much better under Howard, and that Rudd is a spendthrift. Evidently, no matter what the Rudd government did, he was always going to run his great new tax on everything scare campaign, even if the RSPT isnt the best candidate. But were still hearing nothing but negativism from Action Man Abbott. The recitation of total nonsense about the size of government always being smaller under the Coalition (only one of the demonstrable lies Tony told) wont cut the mustard."