Joe Hockey is nearly as pathetic as Kevin Rudd. One moment he is a God fearing conservative, the next minute a self-described  ‘progressive’ and now we have him meeting with John Howard:

Probably a Rudd-styled shameless media stunt in some vain attempt at winning over conservatives. He’s not fooling anyone. He has already made his bed with another Rudd Lite – MT on carbon taxation. Talk of Hockey as a ‘consensus’ candidate is absurd.

UPDATE

There was some talk about Hockey’s so called pre-conditions for leadership on ABC’s Insiders this morning. Well here are some conditions:

1. The public release and audit of the IPCC’s data, models and predictions,

2. If the science stands-up, then a full cost-benefit analysis of the best response to AGW – aka Copenhagen Consensus in which carbon taxation ranked as the least effective response to AGW.

UPDATE II

Hockey has become a media tart – as they push his claim for leadership. The MSM will typically push the most left-wing candidate.

UPDATE III

Sympathetic articles are coming in hard and fast from the ABC and the Fairfax Press for Hockey and Turnbull, like this one exploring Turnbull’s acting career while at high school. Completely irrelevant to carbon taxation, but designed to show the human side of MT. Pathetic ABC propaganda.

More coverage of the ABC’s attempt to get the most left-wing candidates across the line in the impending Liberal Party leadership vote.

I’m back. As I was writing earlier this week, Liberal Party dissidents opposed to carbon taxation should leave the Liberal Party and join the National Party, unless MT can be ousted. Now Senator Cory Bernardi, who is on our side, has admitted on ABC Lateline that he is receiving thousands of emails from Liberal Party faithful wanting the National Party to run candidates against the Liberal Party so they can vote National, because of their stance against carbon taxation.

MT and Joe Hockey have become an unmitigated disaster for the Liberal Party. Tony Abbott has finally maned-up by agreeing to challenge MT for the leadership next week. Kevin Andrews has been the real leader in all of this, but getting rid of MT and his socialist cohort is the number one priority, regardless of who replaces them.

The biggest lie in all of this, is that opposing carbon taxation will make the Liberal Party irrelevant, as MT and Joe Hockey have been saying. However, supporting carbon taxation would be a slap in the face of Liberal Party values of small government and low taxation – which the vast majority of Australians support!! No body, except die-hard socialists, want a multi-billion dollar re-distribution of income via taxation and carbon derivative markets that will have no measurable positive impact on the natural environment, or serve no general public good. Apart from undermining national wealth and standard of living, carbon taxation will only satisfy the socialist sycophants running a muck in the media and in the leadership of both major political parties.