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Liberal candidate's meltdown

***super_nova*** — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 06:50:09 GMT

How can anybody vote for this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If it was not so serious it would be funny.

http://www.watoday.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/liberal-candidates-meltdown-no-surprise-to-tony-abbott-20130806-2rb5a.html

Re: Liberal candidate's meltdown

lakeland27 — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 06:54:57 GMT

i heard the audio today. poor sod

Re: Liberal candidate's meltdown

donnashuggy — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 07:00:10 GMT

He sounds like Tony Abbott

Re: Liberal candidate's meltdown

donnashuggy — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 07:10:24 GMT

Not the pitch of his voice, just the way he avoided the question lol

Was it nerves or did he not know the answers?

His minder seemed to want to get him away before he made any more blunders ha ha!

Re: Liberal candidate's meltdown

crystal**flake — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 07:29:38 GMT

@donnashuggy wrote:
He sounds like Tony Abbott

Thats what I thought.

This is an example of what cemented my voting choice.

Re: Liberal candidate's meltdown

j*oono — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 07:32:19 GMT

That was just embarrassing. I thought the reporter was also very cruel.

Funny though but I don't think much of Diaz's future prospects in politics.

Re: Liberal candidate's meltdown

spotweldersfriend — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 07:40:22 GMT

Must..stop..boats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtObrnaovrI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Re: Liberal candidate's meltdown

i-need-a-martini — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 07:53:39 GMT

Well what can you expect?

How is the poor blighter supposed to answer policy questions when their leader hasn't given them any policies??

Re: Liberal candidate's meltdown

***super_nova*** — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 07:54:33 GMT

@j*oono wrote:
That was just embarrassing. I thought the reporter was also very cruel.

Funny though but I don't think much of Diaz's future prospects in politics.

It is reporter's job to get answers to important questions. As it is nobody knows what exactly LNP policies are. I cannot believe they keep parroting the "stop the boats" slogan, surely everybody with half a brain does by now realises that the ALP has in place deterrents even more draconian than the LNP had at the time there was a lull in boat arrivals. So what more they can possibly do?

Re: Liberal candidate's meltdown

not_an_eloi — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 08:02:58 GMT

"While the Liberal team in Melbourne will be scratching its head at the quality of the candidate selection process in Sydney, one person who will not be surprised in the slightest is Tony Abbott.

Abbott spent more than a year looking for a Greenway solution.

It has long been known in Liberal circles that the Diaz family has control of the local branches in Greenway, centred around Blacktown and including suburbs like Seven Hills, Toongabbie and Kellyville Ridge.

Jaymes Diaz and his father Jess, a Blacktown councillor, are migration agents and influential members of the large Filipino community in the area.

The local joke goes that the second piece of paperwork you get to sign with your visa documents when you deal with the Diaz family is a Liberal Party membership."

branch stackin', tsk, tsk.

Re: Liberal candidate's meltdown

nero_bolt — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 08:18:15 GMT

even Rudd and the labor party isnt as NASTY, petty or bitter as what I am seeing in this thread

Rudd, Abbott back Lib candidate over gaffe

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, too, was in Mr Diaz's corner.

"I understand the Liberal candidate for Greenway had a few challenges yesterday. I'm sure some of ours will at some stage or another," Mr Rudd told reporters in the Queensland seat of Griffith.

"That's just life in an electoral campaign. If you've been through as many as I have you've seen anything happen."

Deputy Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said although it was the first gaffe of the 2013 campaign, it wouldn't be the last.

"I think anyone who's never made a mistake ever is entitled to have a go," he told reporters in Sydney on Tuesday.

Re: Liberal candidate's meltdown

donnashuggy — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 08:29:13 GMT

Is a gaffe not answering a question?

He was asked the same question several times, does he know the answer nero?

He will by tomorrow lol

Re: Liberal candidate's meltdown

newstart2380 — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 08:31:11 GMT

If you did not feel some pain for this young candidate you have not got a heart, I never cease to wonder at some of you lot with your "kick a dog while its down" cruel mentality. Shame and even KR and AA felt for him.

Re: Liberal candidate's meltdown

donnashuggy — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 08:42:10 GMT

I can't see any nasty posts

Re: Liberal candidate's meltdown

i-need-a-martini — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 09:18:28 GMT

Maybe the member for Greenway went to the Tony Abbott school of public speaking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ9y1c73-IM

Re: Liberal candidate's meltdown

donnashuggy — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 09:22:04 GMT

Re: Liberal candidate's meltdown

i-need-a-martini — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 09:23:27 GMT

But he is going to stop the boats Donna. Give him a break.

Re: Liberal candidate's meltdown

just_me_karen — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 09:32:14 GMT

That was embarrassing to watch. Nero, surely you can't support this man who clearly doesn't have even a basic understanding of the lnp policies? I think it demonstrates two things... That the lnp have no policies (and that their planned austerity cuts to the bone are so harsh the leaders won't even share them with candidates)... And two, that the slogans simply don't make logical sense.

No wonder rabbit won't debate!

Re: Liberal candidate's meltdown

acacia_pycnantha — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:37:59 GMT

If he couldn't remember only six points of a key policy, then he'd be better off quitting politics and going out and getting a real job. However, in his case, I fear it would be employment as unskilled labour.

The quality of our politicians on both sides really is abysmal.

Vote: None of the above.

Re: Liberal candidate's meltdown

not_an_eloi — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 00:51:02 GMT

abbott wanted ol' mate and neighbour angry anderson in that seat.

diaz' old lady put 'er hand up for the job also.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/west/liberal-party-shortlists-preselection-candidates-for-greenway/story-fngr8i5s-1226573532791