Jimmy_041 wrote:Psyber wrote: I went home to my wife in 1996 with the news I had just been assured by Alexander Downer that he would back me for a safe Liberal state seat.
She went right off and suggested she wouldn't stand in my way but wouldn't stick around for the role of MP's wife and hence public property.
Recently I got an email from the Liberal Party seeking nominations to become candidates and I looked at it for 45 seconds before deleting it.
My wife's winning comment in 1996 was, "You're too idealistic, you'll hate the compromises you have to make, and that will make you Hell to live with!"
Was she talking generally or if you went into politics?
Well she was talking about
if I went into politics specifically at the time, but it is probably generally true...
I had dinner with another (lawyer) friend and Greg Crafter one weekend recently and we had a healthy 3-way political debate in which I was probably in the middle ground. Later in the evening Greg was urging me to stand for state parliament - I think he likes idealists, being one himself.
(Lets not read any conspiracy into the fact that I was recently introduced to Martin Hamilton Smith's sister by another friend who knows Greg...)