Weez, quite frankly, I would still go for Rudd if he suggested the invasion of NZ as a follow up to John Howards’ earlier suggestion.

Then vote, Greens first, for the Senate and protest.

To pick up sixteen seats in the lower house is a big ask. Three more years of Howard is a very sad, impossibly bad, prospect. For us to Norway.

I am looking forward to bitching to my local member. He will no longer be able to use the excuse that his party is not in government.

There are so many reasons that women don’t seem to warm to Costello. He’s creepy, aggressive, dismissive and smarmy.

However, these all pale when a woman meets him as you know he’s looking at your tits instead of listening to your credentials.

Can’t be a leader when 51% of the population realises, cringes and then gets very, very angry!

Weez, I agree, but I’m throwing my support behind Rudd. I want Howard out at any cost, and Rudd at the moment is that cost. Of course, as a symbolic gesture, I plan to do the same as you – vote Green and preference Labor. Here in the ACT, I will be voting below the line in the Senate – preferencing the Liberals dead last: they have one of the most marginal Senate seats here in the ACT.

Rudd is indeed Howard-lite, but he’s not Howard… I want Howard to lose and I want at least some progressives (the few who are left in the Labor party) in the government. Better some under Rudd than none under Howard. I’ll be helping Labor out next door in Eden-Monaro on election day.

Dave, I can see the point of wanting HoWARd out at all costs… but be mindful of just how much you’re willing to pay.

Case in point is the incredibly and increasingly authoritarian behviour of Labor at the NSW state level. It was King Iemma or the incompetence of Peter Debnam. The obvious and sensible choice for NSW voters was to keep Debnam out of leadership- but the cost to do so is getting into the billions now.

I see voting Green as a way to diversify power in Parliament; with any luck, the Greens might hold the balance of power and could even save a top-to-bottom Labor government from the hubris which overtook HoWARd with WorkChoices .

Agreed Weez… I am hoping that the Greens get the balance of power in the Senate. I am aware that Rudd is a cost, and a Christian to boot. I want that war mongering Liberal arsehole out of my parliament though. Fingers crossed.

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I am hoping that the Greens get the balance of power in the Senate.

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I want that war mongering Liberal arsehole out of my parliament though.

Easy- vote Green 1, Labor 2.