Gillard vs Abbott - Who will you vote for? POLL

[Noblesse]

It worked. For the second election year in a row, a lobby group booted the Prime Minister by convincing the bogan that its constitutional right to get rich easy was under threat. While it was the unions in 2007 pillorying Workchoices, the mining industry in 2010 nobly found itself willing to spend tens of millions of dollars on ads to save tens of billions of dollars on tax. With the ALP’s re-election prospects worsening by the day, the party booted its technocrat leader. A leader who sometimes didn’t speak English, and was allegedly threatening the bogan’s entitlement to make $150k per annum for holding a stop sign in a hole somewhere near Kalgoorlie.

In his place was installed Julia Gillard. With a strong background in both the union and maxtreme justice dispenser Slater & Gordon, the bogan is intended to feel that its unconvincingly stated intention of going to work in the mines is safe. Safe from a tax that it has not actively sought to understand, but knows that it does not like. Another key benefit of Gillard’s ascension to PM is the bogan’s vastly increased capacity to pass ginger jokes off as political analysis. After  identifying that Kevin Rudd looked somewhat like Tintin, the bogan’s content ran dry, and it was forced into silence. No longer. With a deeper arsenal of ginger jokes derived from Summer Heights High, The Footy Show, and its friends, the bogan can now extend an unflattering analysis of its leader’s physical appearance well out past 20 seconds. Immediately upon her appointment, it trawled the internet for web pages entitled ‘ranga joke of the day’, then bookmarked it to provide fodder for its workplace joke-telling. The bogan likes this.

While the last couple of decades have made women in politics less remarkable, the bogan still cannot help itself. With comments more thinly veiled than Janet Jackson’s right breast during Super Bowl XXXVIII, bogans have availed themselves of AM radio talkback shows to share insights such as “if she’s never run a household, how can she run a country?”.

Whether the bogan will vote for Gillard is a different question. More likely, this new twist in an already circuitous pre-campaign campaign is likely to provide the bogan with ample opportunity to say things it believes are profound, without requiring any knowledge or offering any insight. It will say things like “I’m not sure if Australia’s ready to vote for a woman”, blissfully unaware that, in a parliamentary democracy, it has no capacity to vote for Julia Gillard (unless it lives in the admittedly bogan loci of Melton or Hoppers Crossing). In the bogan booth, however, the bogan will pause, concerned about the prospect of being told what to do by a women…

Whether applicable in this instance or not, the bogan’s homophobia infiltrates much of its mindset. Despite the cheap shots on offer, and his self-confessed fear of homosexuality, the Coalition knows that Tony Abbott needs to stay away from gender and sexuality in the coming months. He will face a new task; breaking the balls of someone who was born without them, and looking chivalrous all the while

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[slothpomba]

I don't like any of the candidates.

I'm not a big fan how Kevin Rudd was kind of "overthrown" because of party politics and because of the influence of unions (or so wiki says) . So, because of that simple fact im not a big fan of gillard either.

I know almost nothing about her qualities as a leader as well. So shes an unknown for me.

Liberal is worse...Abbott cant control his party... and has a bunch of kooky ideas.

So i reckon I'm going for the sex party.

Then once that's finished, I'm probably going to vote for liberal (this is a major strong labor seat... so if i make it more marginal we might get some more attention..hopefully by some weird twist liberal wont get elected here... but this seat has been under labour rule for like a straight 60 years... and liberal has only been in power 15 years since 1910) or a 3rd party like the greens.

When i vote this year, i think i will (unlike most people) not just vote for the particular head of the party because has better promises. I'll vote for the party with the better policies and see which candidates are standing in my electorate and which ones i think can best serve my interests. You could always do a bit of tactical voting to try make your seat more marginal i guess.

[Eriny]

Other.

Although I will rank Gillard higher in my preferences. Abbott is a nut!

[appianway]

If I can vote in this election, like kingpomba, I'll be voting for the most competent representative in my area.

[IntoTheNewWorld]

If I can vote in this election, like kingpomba, I'll be voting for

the sex party.

[stonecold]

lol stonecold, I have no opinion about it, I just think its amusing he has this belief while his daughters are actually quite attractive...

they are very attractive lol...

[*ryan777*]

dont like either atm, but ill vote liberal cos im in such a strong labor seat

[Twenty10]

^ i can see the chick spinning both ways :S

[Kennybhoy]

I prefer Richard III.

You get it because you're a nerd.

[Mao]

True, but I have much better feeling about Gillard than Rudd. For one, if she is going to "crowd-source" ideas and contributions from her party as she claims, hopefully we won't have any sudden changes in policy, such as waking up to "good morning LOL JK I'm Rudd and I'm putting on a 58% non-negotiable tax".

Just curiously, what exactly have you got against the mining tax? It's supported by a lot of top economists and even the IMF

To answer a very early post because of my absence, http://vcenotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=27024.new#new

[iffets12345]

You know, despite the well thought out selection-process many of you guys have for either of the two parties, depressingly...

The population of the poorly educated lower-class masses will be swayed by things like today tonight and a current affair and vote on media pressure.
Which, I think is swaying towards Gillard.

SIGH (at compulsory voting)

[Noblesse]

It appears, despite the ministerial reshuffle, that the incompetent Conroy still remains the Minister for BCDE.

- 1 vote for Labor, Pirate Party/Sex Party + 1

[ninwa]

Gah.

Rudd should have been given Foreign Affairs. And labor would have gotten soooo many votes if she'd gotten rid of Conroy. Silly woman.

[QuantumJG]

I just found out that Gillard is an Athiest, I'm now inclined to vote for her.

[stonecold]

Meh, not even going to get to vote.  lame...