Julia Gillard

I don't have much time for Julia Gillard.  Not because of her gender or her state of origin or her history as a lawyer for the union movement or even her time as a political staffer.  It's not personal with me.

It's because I don't believe she is up to the job - I just don't think that she is a genuine leader or that she even has the interests of the nation or the people at heart.  She simply doesn't have the experience or the political nous that the job requires - and she demonstrates that almost every day.

And no amount of "tough as nails" talk will change that.

I think she is just a junior politician who is out of her depth - along with most of the rest of the Federal Labor crew.  Which pretty much explains why she and her party are on the nose with large numbers of voters.  Smarter folks than I have analysed the problem and even written books about it.  Perhaps she should read one of them.

Her political judgement has been so poor that for two years now she has been chasing Abbott and the opposition down every nasty little rat-hole that they can find.  As if that was ever going to be a path to glory.

If she isn't damaging the economy by pursuing a "Budget Surplus" then she is damaging people by incarcerating them on Nauru.  Or sucking up to the US and shafting Assange.  What on earth were she and the Cabinet thinking?

And now the Libs smell blood and think they will nail her over events from her union days.  And the entire media circus are on the case because they think the Libs might be able to pull it off.

The reason that Abbott and the Libs have adopted their "Batshit Crazy" approach to opposition is because they know that Gillard will steal the juicy bits.  She does that because she has no "intellectual argument" of her own to offer voters - all she can do is chase after the same racist and pig-ignorant voter that Abbott has targeted.

And by stealing the Libs "Batshit Crazy" agenda - what she has actually done is destroy her own credibility.

Like I said a junior politician - out of her depth.