Did you see the Liberals Razzle Dazzle US-style sea of blue American Convention on the news?
It looked like a Korean mass wedding between Tony and faithful followers with John Howard having a cameo role as Mr Tough Guy on stopping the boats as Tony's mentor in a select crowd with no interjections.
Liberal Founder Bob Menzies was made of sterner stuff. He held open Aussie-style rallies in places like outside the Perth General Post Office where he'd parry injections with vigour and jest and the crowd would cheer his courage no matter which party they liked.
Abbott is a spineless coward who hides in hand-picked razzle-dazzle Lib rallies.
The very thing he hopes border thugs will confer on him (Aussie courage) he loses by opting for hysterical American-style political conventions.