Rudd in trouble
June 23rd 2010 15:14
At first blush, the move on Rudd looks like a return to the bad old days of the ALP when right wing union robots all but ran the party. Union alpha-bots like Bill Shorten, Paul Howes and the like are always full of their own great potential, although they typically make unusually incompetent politicians. In the meantime, they can really do some damage to everyone else.
Strangely, Howes' main message was about Rudd's incapacity to get his message across. In other words, the media and polls had moved against him. Whatever Rudd's real failings and Gillard's real abilities, dumping a first term PM because the polls were against him would pretty much wreck the ALP. Any time a PM took a decision that was even temporarily unpoular, they would be looking over their shoulder. Since the ALP's political role has always been reform, which is always risky, it would place any Labor leader under the sword of Damocles on a permanent basis.
And of course the worst Liberal leader ever, a man with little control over his need to damage others to soothe his inner demons, grins his manic grin as he watches the carnage and plots more years of lost time.
Strangely, Howes' main message was about Rudd's incapacity to get his message across. In other words, the media and polls had moved against him. Whatever Rudd's real failings and Gillard's real abilities, dumping a first term PM because the polls were against him would pretty much wreck the ALP. Any time a PM took a decision that was even temporarily unpoular, they would be looking over their shoulder. Since the ALP's political role has always been reform, which is always risky, it would place any Labor leader under the sword of Damocles on a permanent basis.
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