🚀 go-pugleaf

"tim" <tim@nospam.com> wrote in message
>
> Watched Costello last week on the 7-30 report. Carried himself very
> well.

Not really. Smug and smirking as usual.

> I thought there was going to be a debate with Costello and Swan on
> Sunday night but nothing on the ABC or any other channel. How
> disappointing.

Tomorrow.

> I think if Costello had a debate with Rudd, Costello would easily beat
> Rudd in any debate.

Academic point. Party leaders do not debate party deputy leaders.

> Looks like Rudd will win easily, and then it will take Rudd about two
> years to mess up the economy.

As Rudd says, you think the sky will fall in with a Labor government. The last 
one was elected five times in a row, so that view is a bit hard to fathom.

> Costello will then lose the next federal
> election due to the ALP winning by the biggest landslide in 2007. This
> will take a couple of elections to come back from.
>
> Turnball to lead the Libs back into government in 2013

An eternity away in politics. Don't waste your time thinking about it.

> and then run a
> strong economy. He seems a man with a good brain and has the x factor
> where no other polition does in either party.
>
> I think if the Libs moved to Costello now they may have a chance at
> this years election.

It wouldn't make any difference. People already know they'd be voting for Howard 
and then getting Costello.

> The ALP dropped Hayden for Hawke 4 weeks out from
> the 1983 federal election.

Hawke was very popular. Costello isn't.

> If the Libs put in Turnball and Boshop

Bishop? Julie Bishop? (You couldn't possibly mean Bronwyn.)

> on the ticket then this would
> show up Rudd and Gillard and I think the polls would turn quite
> dramatically.

Why?

> Howards been a great PM.

No, he's been an awful PM. A disgrace.

> Time looks up for him.

And it's about time it was.

> Hope the Libs don't go
> with the flow because it could be a nightmare landslide against them
> if they just let it flow as is the case now.

A nightmare landslide is exactly what they, and Howard in particular, deserve.