The author should get the Pulitzer Prize. Brilliant prose.
Encapsulates it all.
This was posted on the Catallaxy Files blog.
"Every day, every minute, every time Rudd opens his mouth, Labor voters -
like beer fairies when someone drinks a Canadian Club - explode and die.
It's the mind-boggling condescension; the grotesque narcissism; the
pretentious over-analysis of everything; the ludicrous thesaurus-mined
vocabulary, that makes his every speech a weird froth of verbiage devoid of
actual meaning; the overwhelming smugness; the insufferable conceit; the
off-the-scale self-regard; the insane, all-consuming craving for unanimous
awed recognition as the smartest person in the room (and any room); the
teenage levels of self-aggrandisement; the hilarious bigging-up
name-dropping; the crass, pathetic, utter inability to relate to anyone
below his perceived level, AKA everybody; the primed-to-explode grievances
that fester behind the rictus smile; the ridiculous OCD of the just-so
white-shirt-coloured-tie-and-navy-suit - unless it's a weekend and it's the
ridiculous OCD of the just-so-khaki-chinos-and-chambray-shirt; the painful
fakeness of the manufactured persona; the desperate fist-clenching as he suppresses the anger that ordinary people make him feel; the lightning speed
to perceive a slight; the drawn-out hundred-fold revenge in return; the
delight in humiliating those beneath him; and the cloying, fulsome, gushing
insincerity of his fawning over other world leaders.
Does anyone seriously think this man can be voted in as Prime Minister
again by an electorate now wholly and painfully aware - which it was not
before - of all of the above?
Sorry, Kevin, it's over. Yes, those cool kids at school that got all of
the girls' attention, with their pathetic muscles and dumb macho posturing
and stupid, smart-aleck lines - how could those morons have laughed? - while
you - YOU! - went ignored for all those years! You tried to hide your
superiority and suck up to them, those nobodies! But you showed them, you
showed them, how dare those stupid cows ignore YOU, you were smarter and
better than all of them! You showed them! You showed them all!
Yes, you did show them. Be happy with that. Because it's over. Australia
knows you now."
