Leftist Inability to Handle Criticism in Australia too

Posted on October 18, 2007

The usual Leftist glass jaw again. (In boxing, a fighter who is easily knocked out is said to have a “glass jaw”)

“Prime Minister John Howard has told Labor Leader Kevin Rudd to “grow up” and stop complaining about government attacks on him and his party. The government has this week run ads attacking Mr Rudd and his treasury spokesman Wayne Swan as inexperienced L-platers [learner drivers]. Labor quickly launched counter-ads in which Mr Rudd says the ads are part of a government scare campaign.

Mr Howard today said Mr Rudd’s complaints about being attacked were “extraordinary”. “What the Labor Party is saying is please don’t attack us,” Mr Howard told reporters in Brisbane. “What they’re really saying is it’s unfair and illegitimate for the Labor Party to be attacked in this election campaign.”

Mr Howard said Mr Rudd and Labor seemed entirely happy to attack the government and were applying a double standard. “Can I just say to Mr Rudd: grow up,” Mr Howard said.

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Leftists have to use all means to shut off criticism because the facts are so embarrassing to them. In this case they regard it as illegitimate that conservatives have reported (correctly) that the great majority of prominent Labor Party [Leftist] candidates in the forthcoming elections are former labor union officials. Because of their past bloody-mindedness, unions are deeply unpopular with many Australians.

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