Jimmy_041 wrote:Chuck Wepner wrote:Abbott's contesting the next election
I'm sure Bill Shorten just got a sudden rush of optimism - Another John Howard not knowing when to let it go????
He just wants to serve Australia and his electorate
He sure does. Pity he's spent that last four months since his departure sulking and hiding. I'm sure his constituents have been happy with his local efforts.
He's also a born and bred pugilist who doesn't know when to stop fighting. It may be a good thing in some sports, but it's a bad thing in politics. Pity the crowd, by and large, aren't barracking for him and what he stands for.
I note he's off to the US to speak at an event of religious right Christian brethren, proselytising about all the bad things in society like gays marrying each other and women having driver's licenses, or something similarly out of the 19th century, like he did at the Thatcher speech late last year in London. If only Abbott knew how to convince people of his views, like Turnbull, instead of expecting people to simply adopt them uncritically because he said so, he might have a chance of winning back the prime ministership. The thing is, even if he had the ability to sell his philosophies, no-one is buying what he's selling. Only a bunch of rusted on Christian conservatives, monarchists and disaffected Aussie right-wing 'patriots' would accept his views as gospel, and that's not the majority of Australian voters.