So for pensioners it’s Vote Mal, Eat Pal.

I pinned my colours to the mast for Turnbull some time ago.

I hope he will bring back the better angels of the Liberal Party.

I wonder how long it will take the RWDBs to figure out they need a leader that will switch voters to the Libs who would otherwise go elsewhere? One election? Two? More? There’s more than a few swinging voters on this site who’d give Grand Mal a try, and they haven’t voted Liberal in l-o-o-o-n-g time, if ever…

Besides, Joe at least had the guts, or gormlessness, to act on Downer’s parting Quay Grand gesture: “By the way, Howard wants people to front him directly if they think he should go.”

I reckon he deserves the window seat on that count alone. Brough was the only other one, and fortunately for Rudd, he’s gone. He and Abbott could have made a roughhouse parliament tag team, lethal to the Nambour nonces, .

Roxon and Halton and Health is their likely downfall, she hasn’t put a foot right. Abbott, as ex-Health minister, with a score to settle with Roxon over the Press Club, is well briefed, and temprementally suited for the demolition job. Hockey had the health portfolio too, so Abbott and Hockey would be well positioned to catalog the failure of Rudd and Swan’s promised fix of health, especially as the State governments he was relying on for the shepherding fall, and the new state tory gov’ts will be only too happy to give Kev and Wayne and Nicola the most hospital of passes.

That’s if the Libs strategy is to decide their team on who is best to go after the weakest link.

Libs, strategy… what was I thinking?

topless perhaps with a stun gun in case of rampaging tigers.

From his bike.

Good to see you back, btw.

But I could see our Tone huntin’ the moose in a sort of manly Vladimir Putin way, topless perhaps with a stun gun in case of rampaging tigers.

Tony no doubt also sees himself as “feisty”. And hasn’t he also got more than the average number of kiddies? And no doubt the North Shore is north of somewhere? Closer to Russia than Perth?

the comparison by a “senior Liberal source” (no doubt Tony Abbott) of the Mad Monk himself to Sarah Palin last week. He energises the base, you see.

Possibly he does energise them, but to do what?

I would have expected such a comparison to be made on the basis of the whole ‘women’s bodies are just centrally-heated wheelbarrows’ thing.