How carefully does Kevin Rudd court the moron vote? The vote of...

How carefully does Kevin Rudd court the moron vote? The vote of people who care more that the Prime Minister cuts his face than that he blows the nation’s finances?

Observe the time line.

Rudd typically gets up very early to get briefed on the news and prepare lines for the day with his top advisers. And to shave.

On this day he’d done all that and was out running those prepared lines for the TV cameras by 8am:

STRANGELY, the PM’s nick had disappeared by the time he fronted up at an 8am doorstop interview in Darwin.

But from the time stamp on Rudd’s Instagram it wasn’t until around 9.30am Brisbane time (9am Darwin time) that he posted his “selfie” of the cut. That suggests it wasn’t an instant impulse, but was done after a lot of discussion about how it would play. Or, of course, Rudd shaved all over again.

And the picture indeed played well to people who prefer politics with popcorn. Who prefer to “identify” with their leader than to check what he’s actually doing.

The Age of Seeming.