Originally posted by frasier
Rubbish. How many lost Newspolls in a row?
Turnbull was never part of the solution, but a huge part of the problem.
To paraphrase Rudd, there was barely a sliver of paper between Turnbull and Labor on policy. That was always his strategy - minimise policy differences and let it be a popularity contest. A few problems with that approach - becoming Labor Lite and lurching left had a million plus Coalition supporters voting with their feet. No point being popular with Labor types - as MT was, just look at HC for goodness sake - if he is deeply unpopular with a large section of the Liberal base.
The challenge for ScoMo is not to keep chasing the same left of centre voters that MT did. It is to encourage back to the fold those million plus voters who feel disenfranchised and abandoned. As Labor has traditionally been a centre left Party, so has the Liberals been centre right. MT tried to re- create the Party as a " moderate" Party ie left of centre. The results speak for themselves.
Talk of governing for the " centre" are really just weasel words. Being a centrist simply means standing for nothing. What is needed is product differentiation, not similarities with Labor.
Dumping Molan to an unwinnable position is evidence that regaining the Party from the Turnbull allies will be a hard slog. I hope Molan runs as an Independent and wins a seat.
Ho Humm
Bottom line is that dumping Turnbull has done so much damage to the Liberal party it's not funny
Where are those million plus voters who feel disenfranchised and abandoned? Seems they voted for the labor party in the Victoria election because they feel disenfranchised and abandoned by the conservatives in the liberal party