Political Babies
June 18th 2010 00:35
Recently Peter van Onselen (and hasn't he shot up the greasy pole - nice looking, mostly rational commentators with academic pretensions are scarce on the right it would seem) did an Article in The OZ about the 30-somethings who run Rudd's office and by implication the country.
I recall speaking with a 20-something in a WA polly's office just before the last election who was telling me about the 20-somethings running Rudd's campaign. It was apparently something of a risky venture. Looking back, we can see that the proverbial drover's dog was going to beat Howard, so we don't need to credit them with any real success.
As Onselen says, otherwise inexperienced staffers whose core expertise lies in using new infotech might work when the going is good, but they will come undone when things get complicated. Then, actually knowing something about the issues and the culture of politics might come in handy.
But are such innocents a viable alternative to the machine politics discussed in the last blog? Nope, technique is all they know, and that's the core logic of the machine.
I recall speaking with a 20-something in a WA polly's office just before the last election who was telling me about the 20-somethings running Rudd's campaign. It was apparently something of a risky venture. Looking back, we can see that the proverbial drover's dog was going to beat Howard, so we don't need to credit them with any real success.
But are such innocents a viable alternative to the machine politics discussed in the last blog? Nope, technique is all they know, and that's the core logic of the machine.
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