aborigines to desert labor over intervention, page-2

I think Rudd is making a huge mistake in
trying to look as similar to Howard as
possible so as not to spook Nervous
Nelly voters that he's so different
to Howard as to be dangerously
radical and unelectable.

The down-side to that policy is if
Rudd is seen as 'Howard Lite'
voters may opt for the real
thing - not the lookalike.

Beazley tried the same stunt when
Pauline Hanson's race-hate stance
induced disgruntled Liberal and
Labor rednecks and bigots to
switch to Pauline Hanson's
Voodoo Economics stance
in regards to migrants
and refugees.

What followed was the saddest
and most shameful episode in
Australian politics - Howard and
Beasley held a p*ssing contest
to see who could come up with
the harshest and nastiest
kid-caging policies to
one-up each other in
clawing back race
hate and redneck
voters from One
Nation - all the while both leaders
tried to one-up each other
in saying how much they
despised Pauline Hanson
so they could hang on
to the Ethnic vote!

When voters were presented with a
real mongerel (Howard) and a
pretend mongerel (Beazley)
they choose the real thing
not the lookalike!

On the other hand, had Beazley chosen
to follow his heart (not his lust for
votes) and told voters that he
would *never* support child
abuse as government policy,
his courage under redneck
fire may have convinced
even redneck voters
that the Labor Party
was 'fair dinkum'
and Labor may
have won.

With the average Aussie voter being
able to smell a phoney through
two metres of reinforced
concrete, candidates
(on both sides)
have no option but
to be who they
really are!

THIS is what mattered most
when Graham grew up
in White Australia
from March 1938:



This is Australia as it is today
whether John Howard likes
it or not: