I reckon the political lag is about 5 years.
That is the time between when the *thinkers* decide that a particular politician is past his or her use by date and when the *punters* decide to evict them.
It happened with the lying little rodent and it is now happening with Mike Rann.
The depth of anti Rann feeling that I have come across in South Australia over the past couple of weeks is rather frightening. The man is widely despised. And unusually, the majority of South Australian's are quite happy to say so.
The best reason I can discover is that the people have moved on - but he hasn't. They are completely over his feeble attempts at spin and embellishment and have finally woken up to the fact that he has done nothing of substance and never will. They think he is a plasticine man and they want him gone. How unreasonable of them ;-)
Whereas he thinks that he can keep up the BS and spin and everything will be OK. After all that is what has got him through his entire career to date.
This would make a very interesting case study in perceptions. I hope someone in one of the Universities is studying it.
It's a big dilemma - I wonder how it will be resolved?
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