Hockey and the Leadership

Apparently Joe Hockey’s distancing himself from the OzCar attacks not because Grech worked for him or because it might’ve been the dumbest political move since choosing to invade Russia but because he wants the leadership of the party. At least that’s the view of some senior Liberals.

Below is the comment I left on the news article about Hockey and the Liberal leadership

Hockey could’ve rebuilt the party after the election loss; instead, they chose Nelson, a man who left the ALP when he couldn’t get preselection for Denison and asked the Libs for Bradfield.

Hockey, at least after the election, had some amount of credibility in the public eye but he’s since blown it all by acting like a petulant child in Question Time.

The Liberals need to dump all the old guard well in advance of the next election and get their fresh new faces (who aren’t hell-bent on a return to Howard’s policies) out in the community rebuilding confidence in the party. Then, when the Liberals lose the next election and there’s some generational change, they can start looking at what their philosophical grounding is and who is best in the party at bringing that to the Australian people.

As it stands, they’re a rabble caught between Howard’s 11 years in the seat and Malcolm Turnbull’s naked ambition. They are unelectable and will remain so for a long time unless things change.