Howard "Rubs Out" Costello
It appears as though PMJH has decided that getting re-elected in his own seat is more important that winning parliament. The old boy has opted to take up a slightly different tactic by deleting all references to Peter Costello in a personal letter sent to voters in the Prime Minister's own seat of Bennelong....While Coalition MPs around the nation, including ministers such as Malcolm Turnbull and Andrew Robb, refer to "the Howard-Costello team" in their mailouts, Mr Howard uses a much less specific term - "the strong Liberal team"....
News.com.au goes further...
Of the two, Mr Howard has the more humble letterhead, describing himself as "John Howard MP, Member for Bennelong, Prime Minister". Mr Costello addresses his local constituents as "The Hon Peter Costello MP, Treasurer, Member for Higgins".
A spokesman for the Prime Minister said last night he was unable to comment on the issue.
In the debate on Sunday, Mr Howard said: "One of the differences between me and Mr Rudd is that I have a fantastic team. And most of them are here tonight. And I can say with certainty that we have worked as a team over the last 11½ years. I mean, Peter Costello and I together have worked on building the Australian economy."
Costello has, from memory, something like an 8% approval rating compared to Howard's (as of today) 43%, Rudd is still holding out at 50%.
If the PM isn't prepared to back his pre-ordained successor (Howard has said that if re-elected he will hand-over the top job to Costello) why should the rest of us?
Labels: Australia Decides 2007
posted by Mark @ 12:38 PM
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