His script in his head, I allege, goes something like this:-
"All else is lost. So rush back to Canberra, portray myself on an alleged selfie, as a consummate world diplomat negotiator!"
(A tactic Gillard tried - and failed with, absymally!)
"Get out all those rude letters I've been getting from disenchanted Labor supporters - spread them out on my desk. I'll look busy and concerned. he'll look like important papers. Those dopes out there won't know the difference. Makes me look busy. (Where the hell IS Syria, anyway?) Can I go over there now? Which is the poshest hotel? Do they have a Presidential Suite?"
(This farce and pretence, of Rudd's, will make for good comedy, for many years to come.)
"This "new Kevin look" - will get me over the line! Won't it, 'Elbow'? Rudd, great Statesman? Solver of world problems? Rudd to the rescue!"
There's an old old saying -
"Empty vessels make the most noise". Nothing ever more true. Than in the case of one Mr. K. Rudd, (IMO - and allegedly.)
