I just do not grok this
Right okay so he speaks well (like a white Obama), is personable and isn’t Tony Abbott. That’s kind of where it ends.
It’s like no one remembers when he was the leader of the Liberal party and they were still a clusterfuck of ideological insanity.
I’m no conservative and I think anyone would be better than Abbott as PM (or more importantly Hockey as treasurer) but I do not get this fetishism of a centre-right ‘liberal’ party, there really doesn’t seem to be any grounds or support for it. There already is that kind of libertarian party in the LDP and they don’t really have any traction in the community.
Honestly, I just don’t get it - the hysteria over creating a so called ‘third party’, running alongside Kevin Rudd is just absolutely absurd. Their politics are nothing alike, and it just shows that most of the people who support Turnbull are Labor and Greens voters that would never vote for the Libs even if every minister in the government was a clone of Turnbull.
I can only assume it’s got something to do with Turnbull coming across as a reasonable combination of intelligent and honest for a politician, although I don’t think he’s necessarily above telling porkies for political gain, just that he wouldn’t do it anywhere near as much as The Situation. Not sure many of these lefties remember when Turnbull was leader and he was toeing the party line on HURF BLURF STOP THE BOATS as much as anyone.
