"An attack on your very character and morals. Boy I bet it was a close thing."
You cant be serious lol. Abbotts main role in politics has been in a non literal sense a "headkicker". A master at dishing out the dirt and everyone in Australia knows that. He knows that just like he dished it out some of it will fly back his way. Some of the right wingers here have even complained about his alleged treatment of Pauline Hanson.