Election scare tactics
One of the lines the ALP is running at the moment is “a vote for Howard is a vote for Costello”. As if that’s supposed to dissuade people from voting Liberal.
A better line would be “a vote for Howard is a vote for Howard, because you can’t trust the guy to keep his word on this”.
If I thought I could actually trust John Howard to stand down in eighteen months I’d be voting Liberal, because frankly Peter Costello’s social policy agenda is much more in line with traditional social-liberal/left views than Kevin Rudd’s.
But Howard can’t be trusted to keep his word on anything. If the Liberals win, in eighteen months it’ll be “the party still wants me”, “it was a non-core promise”, “I’ve got a lot to contribute”, and so on. The only way John Howard is leaving the Lodge is in a pine box, electorally or literally.
Popularity: 34% [?]
Here’s hoping for literally!