Editorialising Failure

"He's Your Mate", Part 1004

God help us all, God help us all.
Darren Goodsir, the idiot editor of the SMH endorsed Tony Abbott on the eve of the 2013 Federal election. This is something I cannot ever let him live down. Any person with a functioning frontal lobe of the brain could see that Tony Abbott was not a fit candidate to be Prime Minister. There were the gaffes, the track record of dubious distinction, the 4 years as opposition leader whereby he provided nothing positive to the political discourse of this nation, let alone a skirt of viable policy. Instead Tony Abbott rode on the sentiment that middle Australia had enough of the ALP because ... well, these things he was screaming at the top of his lungs that had to be stopped - like asylum seekers on boats and instituting an Emissions Trading Scheme.

If you added it all up, there was no picture whereby you could deem Tony Abbott had any idea what or how he was going to go about actually governing. And Darren Goodsir, as editor of the Sydney Morning Herald no less, backed this man as leader of a party that frankly ignores science or evidence or facts, as a better choice because it would provide stability.

That's right, stability!

Thus it is my job here to point at at every turn that the SMH editorial complains about Tony Abbott's prime ministership, that I point out that the editor of the SMH was the one who thought this was going to be such a winning idea. As in, "Darren, he's your mate." 18months into this debacle of a government led by one of the most disastrously accident prone Prime Ministers in Tony Abbott, it occurs to Darren Goodsir that perhaps this is a "government by shambles". His words, not mine. You think so, Darren?

And the truly pathetic part is that anybody with half a brain would have told you that Tony Abbott as Prime Minister was going to be a spectacular failure. I wish I could say,to each their own poison, but in this instance I cannot, for Tony Abbott is ruining my day as surely he is ruining Darren Goodsir's day.