But really is labor that desperate... sadly yes they are to have the narcissistic Rudd back.
The man that started most of this rot and the destruction of our borders yet the Australian public (some of them) seem to still think that he is the messiah
You have to question the objectivity of Labor voters that are pressing for a Rudd return, have they forgotten the damage this man has done to this country?
He was personally responsible for the scrapping of a working border policy that has resulted in the diabolical mess we now have.
The petulance, the ego, the manic work schedule, the disrespect of staff and contemporaries.
There is something very strange about Rudd and I wish I were a psychiatrist to give you a full analysis.
All I see is someone that uses odd expressions and words, someone that has to have an adoring crowd around himself or a TV camera in his face. I think the word is narcissistic. He isn't one bit bit interested in the voters or the country, he is only interested in himself and destroying Gillard.
Labor's leadership debacle has party waking up to a bitter pill hangover
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/labors-leadership-debacle-has-party-waking-up-to-a-bitter-pill-hangover/story-fni0cwl5-1226660659148
ALTERING one molecule of the illegal drug LSD gives drug peddlers a loophole to push a deadly synthetic to young people too innocent to know better.
Change the leadership of the Labor Party, again, and a growing number of the ALP's political pushers hope that wishful and naive voters will swallow an equally disastrous electoral drug.
Forget that Kevin Rudd was such a lousy Prime Minister that his deputy, Julia Gillard, felt compelled to take unprecedented action and politically assassinate him, he and his supporters are on the march.
To return now to Kevin O'Lemon would be a huge ask but such is the predicted outcome of the September 14 election that as many as 32 ALP MPs think he is their last hope and have asked him to campaign for them in their electorates.
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Kevin may add a Rudd-er, but even he can't skipper this sinking ship
THE sight of Kevin Rudd being mobbed on the hustings in Geelong must send a chill down the Prime Minister's spine.
"Please come back. We would vote for you straight away," a blonde woman told Rudd, whose response was a cheesy grin flashed straight at the cameras to check the moment had been captured.
In coded and not so coded fashion, Rudd is on the march.
While it sounds absurd, there is no guarantee he won't lead Labor to the election. That is not a media concoction. Julia Gillard's stricken face in parliament last week, as Rudd moved brazenly around her loyalists, spoke volumes.
She has come so close to completing a term in office. She wants history to remember her as the "tough" first female prime minister who defied all odds to implement landmark policies on disability and education. This, she hopes, will be her enduring legacy after people have forgotten those policies are mirages, and that everything her government has done has turned to dust.
The border-protection fiasco she set in train from opposition is her true legacy, with 40,000 asylum seekers on her watch. Friday night saw another tragedy with a report of 60 asylum seekers drowned off Christmas Island, as people smugglers ramp up in anticipation of a Coalition victory. But on this issue, as with everything else, she and Rudd are equally hopeless. Rudd just thinks he's a better salesman.
How would voters take his return? Probably initially with satisfaction, as the rightful king is restored to the throne so unreasonably snatched from him. They might be disappointed at being deprived of the kicking they had been looking forward to giving Gillard, but they would still enjoy Rudd's revenge.
Then we'd remember what Rudd was like, and why his popularity had plunged to the point where his colleagues thought they could take him out. He doesn't like the media describing the last seven years as the Rudd-Gillard government, but the difference is little more than stylistic.
He has no answers, and co-owns most of the dud policies Gillard botched. Sure he'll save a few seats, but Labor will be back at square one with the whole stinking mess
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/kevin-may-add-a-rudd-er-but-even-he-cant-skipper-this-sinking-ship/story-fni0cwl5-1226660624697
