Howard and Co don't need to stoop to the gutter vitriol so...

Howard and Co don't need to stoop to the gutter vitriol so beloved by the Labor Party and many of it's adherents.

That's the difference. Class!

Hawke hand in hand with McKew going around cozying up to Bennelong ethnics and him telling them "don't vote for Howard he's a racist" - if that's the level of ethics you admire, then so be it.
And she - the pristine, principled, upright ABC commentator, so ojbective and supposedly "unbiased" - holds his hand while he does it??

Get down and dirty seems to be the Labor Party motto.

And they show no qualms about their tactics.