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All very good to criticise leadership decisions with the benefit of hindsight. However, the real question is "How would the Opposition have managed these situations had they been in power?"
If you can convince me that Latham, with his populist, policy on the run, backflipping style would have handled things differently or better than stolid Honest (but not really honest) John, then I'd have a preferred winner from this contest.
As it stands, I have lost a lot of respect for Howard but have yet to be convinced that Latham has substance.
Personally I'd like to see an amalgamation of the two front benches, Howard as leader, Costello with Treasury, Rudd with Foreign Affairs, Beazley with Defence and Transport, Latham the Arts.
Better still would be a 'none of the above' box on state election ballot papers, so we can break the power of the parties at the grass roots and try democracy for a change.
Cooda
Wavering between political atheism and anarchy
