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defending the faith ....

defending the faith ....

So, Mrs Abbott – “Margie” – you seem to be a tad upset at the so-called “personal” attacks on your husband?

Well boo, bloody, boo hoo.

For the past two years, Labor and swinging voters (and no doubt many small “l” Liberals) both women and men, have had to put up with the relentless, nasty, vicious and very ugly attacks on our Prime Minister that your husband has ignited and angrily fanned because of the petulant, spoilt brat, born-to-rule dummy spit he has raged ferociously with the Australian public since 2010, because the Independents didn’t give him the nod to be PM.

Ever since your husband failed to convince the Independents he would be a man of his word and a decent Prime Minister, who would do everything they wanted – except of course ‘selling his arse’ (though he’d consider it) he has set about wrecking the place with his constant negativity; his talking down the economy; and his “No, no, no” to every forward thinking policy Labor has passed through the Parliament and implemented ― despite your husband’s schoolyard tantrums.

You, like us, must have seen him proudly stand in front of the ugliest, brutal placards ever displayed about any Prime Minister. As a fellow woman, you must have been disgusted. Then again, Browyn Bishop and Sophie Mirabella weren’t, given they stood in front of them as well — so maybe it’s a Liberal thing.

Anyway, I digress. Regardless, did we hear you publicly decry his stance in support of those placards? No, “Margie”, we didn’t. If you privately berated him – we’d like to know – as until such time as you tell us whether you did or not – we can only assume the obvious – that you must have wholeheartedly agreed with and supported his actions, just as Bishop and Mirabella did.

I am sure if he ever does get to be PM – which I very much doubt – he will be sure to bring his extreme rightwing Catholicism down on every woman in this country. And that’s a very frightening thought.

Your husband, along with his bunch of feral shadow ministers and many on his backbench, have turned the political discourse in this country into the obnoxious, wretched, ugliness it is today.

Are you proud of him? I’m sure you are. You must be, because you have now come out and said what a wonderful, loving, decent man he is! To say that — you must agree with everything he says and does! Otherwise you would have the courage to say there are some things you don’t agree with him on.

But, no — you didn’t do that.

You just heaped praise on him as if he could do no wrong.

Quite frankly, it disgusts me.

If he were my husband (not that he ever would be — perish the thought!) I would most certainly tell him when he has gone too far. As a woman, I wouldn’t tolerate my man degrading any woman, let alone the Prime Minister.

But then, I’m not subservient (not that I’m saying you are) to any man and I will put them in their place if I think they have over stepped the mark with grubby comments.

But that’s just me (and no doubt millions of other Australian women).

Obviously, you don’t have that fortitude. If you do, I’d like to hear it.

Honestly! I would.

Your husband thinks nothing of degrading, not only the office of the prime minister but the Prime Minister herself.

He just can’t handle a woman getting the better of him, can he?

His vicious verbal attacks on the PM and physical attacks on women like Barbara Ramjan prove it — he hasn’t changed in all these years no matter how you try to convince us.

He may love you and the girls and his mother – and Peta Credlin – but that’s where his affinity with women ends.

So get over yourself, Margie Abbott.

Your husband is one of the most vicious Opposition leaders in this country’s history — and as he would say:

“It’s just politics!”

It’s about time the decent women and men of this nation fought back against your husband’s ugly persona.

So … if you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen!

If your husband will let you, that is.

Margie Abbott & Sensitive Tony

 

an act of desperation ....

from politicoz ….

Libs’ Attack Hardly Edge Of The Seat Stuff

Unflushable turd!!

It’s not an insult which strikes fear into my heart or sends my moral compass spinning out of control – nor, do I imagine, would many other Australian adults be offended by its meaning.

Yet for the likes of Greg Hunt and Janet Albrechtsen it is an unthinkable slander on former prime minister John Howard – so bad, in fact, they regard it as comparable to Alan Jones’s assertion that Julia Gillard killed her father with her lies.

looking for a cross to bare ....

Tony Abbott is a hack. A dog. An aggressive, carping, bitter, mindless, deceptive, dodgy, mendacious, rancid, negative, nasty, muck-raking, untruthful, obstructionist, opportunistic, sexist, political Neanderthal. He is unfit for high office. He cannot control his temper. No trick is too low for him. No stunt is too wild. He is a bully. A thug. A snake oil salesman. A poster child for vile bully-boy values. He has repulsive double standards. He hates women. He stands for nothing. He has unhealthy obsessions. He is nuts.

Abbott behaves like Jack the Ripper.

He is Gina Rinehart's butler.

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He is Nancy Reagan without the astrology. He is a douchebag.

I'm quoting here, mostly from Hansard. These are not comments from media figures, or feral demonstrators, or dredged up from 10 or even 30 years ago. These are insults delivered this year, by federal Labor MPs, directed at one person, and orchestrated by Julia Gillard. The level of personal insult has been on an industrial scale.

The Parliament is not a chamber of innocents. Many members, on both sides, including Abbott, have frequently engaged in invective, over-statement, dissembling and rampant double standards. There is also a more general coarsening of public discourse on the internet, thanks in part to the impact of social media. But it is this government's concentration on Abbott's character that sets it apart. It is the tactic on which the Gillard government has staked its survival, the politics of the personal, of targeting character, of hammering the same message about the same person, by every minister, until it seeps into the public mind.

The strategy was unveiled at the beginning of the year with some of the worst political bastardry from the nation's leadership seen in a long time. It started with an Australia Day address at the National Press Club delivered by Anthony Albanese on January 25. By convention this is a respite from political hatchet jobs, but Albanese launched into Abbott's character, describing him as ''One Trick Tony'', that one trick being ''more negativity, more nastiness, more obstructionism''.

This was standard from Albanese, but something much nastier came out of the Prime Minister's own office the next day, Australia Day. A group of Aboriginal demonstrators had gathered at the tent eyesore in Canberra. A member of Gillard's staff alerted one of the people at the demonstration and said, falsely, that Abbott was nearby and had just denigrated the Aboriginal tent embassy.

Australia Day 2012 was thus marked by a hostile mob surrounding the Leader of the Opposition, berating him, banging on windows, making threats. In an irony that could become a metaphor, the Prime Minister, herself at the same function, got caught up in the mess.

The staff member who made the call, Tony Hodges, was obliged to resign. But the tone and the strategy had been set. On the first day of Parliament, February 7, Gillard re-set the template when she described the ''relentless negativity'' of the Leader of the Opposition.

That phrase, or variations on it, can be found hundreds of times in Hansard this year from Labor members. If you want to check the original insults quoted above, I have compiled a top 40 of the government's most self-revealing personal insults so far this year on smh.com.au.

The Prime Minister set the mantra and two days later the leader of government business in the House, Albanese, took it up a notch: ''In your guts, you know he's nuts.'' Albanese thought this was so hilarious he repeated it on February 13, February 16, February 29 and June 25.

The leader's theme was picked up by her chorus. Jason Clare, a junior minister: ''He stands for nothing. He is the Nancy Reagan of Australian politics without the astrology - say no to everything, just rancid, dripping, relentless negativity.'' Hansard, February 29.

After the ''relentless negativity'' line wore thin, the rhetoric was ramped up again.

''He is Gina Rinehart's butler.'' Gillard, Hansard, May 28.

''Tony Abbott is … a dog of a candidate.'' Richard Marles, Labor MP, interview, May 29.

''Abbott is a Neanderthal.'' Rob Mitchell, Labor MP, on Twitter, May 29.

''He is a dodgy snake oil salesman.'' Wayne Swan, Hansard, June 18.

''[He] sees political advantage in people dying.'' Mark Dreyfus, Labor MP, interview, June 26.

''Like Jack the Ripper, he is going to be there wielding his knife.'' Gillard, Hansard, August 20.

''He wants to go the biff day after day after day.'' Swan, Hansard, September 11.

''He is a thug.'' Swan, Hansard, September 11.

''Tony Abbott is the poster child for the vile, bully-boy values.'' Swan, on Twitter, September 19.

Then came the climax last week, when Gillard exploded in rage in the Parliament after she had been caught in the implosion of the reputation of the Speaker, Peter Slipper, a failure by the Prime Minister in every respect, tactical, ethical, moral and political.

Abbott was ruthless in exploiting the failure and Gillard was ruthless in defending it: ''It is misogyny, sexism, every day from this Leader of the Opposition. Every day, in every way … I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man … If he wants to know what misogyny looks like in modern Australia … he needs a mirror … I am offended by the sexism, by the misogyny, of the Leader of the Opposition …''

It was mesmerising. It was great television. Of course Twitter went into a fever (Labor MP Steve Gibbons tweeted: ''That douchebag Tony Abbott.'') Of course the speech went viral on social media. The Prime Minister's outrage would have resonated with every woman who has endured boorish men. But was the accusation of misogyny true? No. Was it ethical? No. Was it a diversion? Yes. Was it part of a pattern? Yes. Was it good politics? We shall see.

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