the fact that Howard lied repeatedly, played the race card, encouraged division, favoured the welathy at the expense of the poor - especially in education, health and welfare, fudged the numbers to give the impression that they were competant economic managers, treated genuine asylum seekers as a sub-human species humiliataed austraia time and time again on the world stage - none of this matters to the loony right, as long as your own pockets are stuffed full