Sarah Hanson-Young Challenges for leadership role

[redandblack]

They're not looney, they're just boring and hard to listen to.

[Darth Vader]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nationa ... 5906066002

check this article out-people look on the Green's as a warm fuzzy tree hugging alternative to the major parties.


But there is no doubt in my mind that Bob Brown is a dangerous fanatic living off the public trough. He embraces a vicious ideology and policies which would almost certainly destroy the Australian economy.
I applaud the courage of Victorian Premier Ted Bailleau whose bypassing of the Greens through preferences relegated them to the inconsequential minority party they are. By sliding into a House of reps seat and a few Senate positions by picking up Labor preferences the Green's have developed some undeserved sense of their importance as a credible alternative. They scored less then 10% of the primary vote in the recent Federal election which pretty much sums it up.
Ninety percent of us didn't vote for them.

I rest my case.

[Leaping Lindner]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/greens-high-tax-ambitions/story-fn59niix-1225906066002

check this article out-people look on the Green's as a warm fuzzy tree hugging alternative to the major parties.


But there is no doubt in my mind that Bob Brown is a dangerous fanatic living off the public trough. He embraces a vicious ideology and policies which would almost certainly destroy the Australian economy.
I applaud the courage of Victorian Premier Ted Bailleau whose bypassing of the Greens through preferences relegated them to the inconsequential minority party they are. By sliding into a House of reps seat and a few Senate positions by picking up Labor preferences the Green's have developed some undeserved sense of their importance as a credible alternative. They scored less then 10% of the primary vote in the recent Federal election which pretty much sums it up.
Ninety percent of us didn't vote for them.

I rest my case.

The jury has examined your case and has a couple of questions. Is this the same (Murdoch owned) Australian that has gone after The Greens since day one, and is this the same Christian Kerr that prior that before joining the Australian was a staffer to Robert Hill, Amanda Vanstone and former Premier John Olsen?
That would make for un bias journalism wouldn't it? Yeah......I'm pretty sure it would. No agenda there.

[redandblack]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/greens-high-tax-ambitions/story-fn59niix-1225906066002

check this article out-people look on the Green's as a warm fuzzy tree hugging alternative to the major parties.


But there is no doubt in my mind that Bob Brown is a dangerous fanatic living off the public trough. He embraces a vicious ideology and policies which would almost certainly destroy the Australian economy.
I applaud the courage of Victorian Premier Ted Bailleau whose bypassing of the Greens through preferences relegated them to the inconsequential minority party they are. By sliding into a House of reps seat and a few Senate positions by picking up Labor preferences the Green's have developed some undeserved sense of their importance as a credible alternative. They scored less then 10% of the primary vote in the recent Federal election which pretty much sums it up.
Ninety percent of us didn't vote for them.

I rest my case.

Apart from the fact that The Australian ran an editorial stating that they would destroy the Greens, I'm getting concerned about your propensity to make so many statements that are easy to check, but you still get it wrong.

The Greens got less than 10% last election? Perhaps you should get the AEC to correct their figure of 11.76%.

90% of us didn't vote for them? Well, 96.27% of us didn't vote for the Nationals either, so that argument applies even more so to them.

I also note that you say they picked up Senate seats by picking up Labor preferences. Well, they got some Labor preferences, but won most of their seats in their own right and picked up Liberal preferences also.

I have to admire your use of language, though. I also note that they won a Reps seat by 'sliding in' to one. I presume it didn't help your case to tell the truth, which is they won that seat on Liberal preferences

I have to thank you for alerting me to Bob Brown, though. I've seen him in politics for many, many, years now and he's always seemed a reasonable, fairly easy-going bloke to me and always gets comfortably voted in, but now I note that he's a 'dangerous fanatic".

I understand, though.

Your view of the world comes from Andrew Bolt and The Australian.

[Gozu]

Good work, R&B right-wingers aren't too keen on facts.

[Darth Vader]

OK find me one article by a political commentator praising the Green's policies or saying they would benefit the Australian economy- so easy to hide behind protestations of bias to escape the truth.

and P-LEEZE ...so strike me down for rounding down the percentage of voters 1.76% wow that pretty much changes the outcome eh?.. I was just adhering to Paul Keating's policy of rounding up or down.... thought you lefties would have caught on to that

[Gozu]

One of Australia's leading economists on why he will be voting for the Greens at the 2010 election:

http://johnquiggin.com/index.php/archiv ... he-greens/

[Darth Vader]

One of Australia's leading economists on why he will be voting for the Greens at the 2010 election:

http://johnquiggin.com/index.php/archiv ... he-greens/

"One of Australia's leading economists" this pinhead is a raving socialist so he can inject nothing into this debate.
One of my leftist lecturers from way back said the most profound thing one day during his boring innane delivery of a snore through unionism on the waterfront. "Take a bum and educate him and you end up with an educated bum"

[redandblack]

It's not the 2%, Darth, it's your inability to get the facts right.

Often.

You stated something as fact to underpin your argument and you were wrong.

Again.

Just as you blindly accepted something as fact on the French Prime Minister thread and you were wrong.

Yet again.

Finally, I note your consistent use of the word 'pinhead', amongst your hyperbole.

A Bill O'Reilly fan as well?

No wonder you believe anything that suits your prejudice.

[Leaping Lindner]

It's not the 2%, Darth, it's your inability to get the facts right.

Often.

You stated something as fact to underpin your argument and you were wrong.

Again.

Just as you blindly accepted something as fact on the French Prime Minister thread and you were wrong.

Yet again.

Finally, I note your consistent use of the word 'pinhead', amongst your hyperbole.

A Bill O'Reilly fan as well?

No wonder you believe anything that suits your prejudice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BBfybCPkjA