Nelson is on the right track again by raking the piss (pun intended) out of Labor's 4-pot definition of binge drinking. This is populism at it's democratic best. The comments on the news.com.au article are awesome. Everyone in OZ is now a humourous right-wing blogger. I love this country.
Rudd looks like a proper tosser.
I am reminded of Kerry O'Brien's question before the election when he asked Rudd if he could not recall his NYC strip club escapades because he was a "two pot screamer". Genius.
This will dawg Rudd up to and beyond the Gippsland bi-election, which Labor are sure to lose. The "Uteman" political ads by the brewing lobby (shown here on the ABC's Insiders - skip ahead in video to 2:30) are brilliant. Whilst Gippsland is natural National Party territory the ALP would have hoped to snare some blue collar support because of Rudd's poll-ratings and media-driven momentum. The result of this election will confirm that those who voted for Howard all those years have not fundamentally changed, and can't be made to change by nerds like Rudd.
I commend Nelson having the sense to see this. Rudd is still smarting from when Nelson put the "blowtorch" on him over petrol. Now Nelson keeps the political heat on, dispite the opposition of the entire commentariat. It's a shame this week's newspoll data will not pick up this announcement and it's effect. Nelson has best the instinct for the electorate of all current pollies. This is all the more commendable because Nelson is a doctor and could be forgiven for superior posturing much more than businessman Turnbull and bureaucrat Rudd.
Who better to make the judgement about our nation's health than a doctor? Doctors like Nelson are always dispelling hocus pocus health scares because they care MORE than the do-gooding idiots. Bullshit hurts, it never helps. On health policy Rudd is the political equivalent of a holistic naturopath acupuncturist. His insistence on vegan abstention from booze will ring well with tofu-munching yoga class-attenders, but the rest of us think he's a either a knob or a nut.
Another Tube!
