bolt calls abbott a leftie

Abbott insults conservatives on his racial “crusade”

Tony Abbott says this “crusade” is about the heart - and claims Australia’s founders lacked it::

“If we had known in 1901 what we know now, if our hearts had been as big then as now, we would have acknowledged indigenous people in the constitution back then,’’ he told reporters at Australia Day celebrations in Canberra.

This is utter nonsense. Australia’s founders no more lacked heart than do people today.

The difference is that they were inspired by the creed that all citizens are as one before the law. They were right and Abbott and his fellow travelers on the Left are very, very wrong.

To criticise his opponents in this debate as simply lacking heart is just another form of the Left’s grim cry of “racist” to shut down debate. It is unworthy and suggests Abbott is not confident in the strength of his argument.

This issue should not be decided by a weighing of hearts but the exercise of minds. Dividing Australians by race is not just fundamentally wrong, but socially dangerous. This will not “reconcile” but permanently divide.

Good intentions in no way are a substitute for good judgment. This crusade must be defeated.

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/andrewbolt/

Another blow to the unwashed.


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