You can’t expect to get away with that. Since late 2010 poll after poll has shown that we(by which yes I mean not me personally, I vote Green anyway, but the Rudd camp) have produced a positive, healthy vision for government which would have locked in a comfortable Labor re-election but your type have consistently eschewed political pragmatism and have instead opted to go out in some orgasmic blaze of passion and defiance. You want to talk about sabotaging Labor’s chances of re-election, who leaked the video of Rudd losing his temper in China? Who authorized Simon Crean to start lambasting a sitting Foreign Minister on national radio? Who refused to condemn a backbench MP calling the foreign minister a psychopath on twitter? Who dispatched no less than seven cabinet Ministers (Swan, Emerson, Burke, , Smith, Crean, Conroy, Roxon) to go on television and start trashing the record of Labor’s first time in office, in the process repudiating all the previous assertions that they were a competent government.
They stabbed him in the back as Prime Minister, then when he rebuilt his public image as a popular and effective Foreign Minister they had to tear him down again. Unable to establish anything remotely resembling a rapport with the electorate they tore down anyone else who could. Don’t try and pin this on Rudd, this mess is one entirely of the governments own making. Having ensured its own demise through its public displays of deceit and manipulation this government now devotes extraordinary energies to ensuring that the one man who can save it, isn’t given the chance to do so.
