Yes, said our leader, he felt that opposing foreign investment was offensive. And this was the week that she and her creepy little bagman Ettridge had been out fingering Aborigines as man-eaters. And if I keep my trap shut a little longer, and wait till Pauline self-destructs, they will be mine. Well, they won't be. Howard said the same in 1988 and backpedalled a thousand miles an hour once the blowtorch came out.
People remember that.
In fact, Howard can't win however he cuts it. Frankly, these people don't care what the bleeding heart liberal elite has to say about Hanson. We don't care if she doesn't have the answers, they say, because neither do you. They back her out of spite, like some US blacks back that hokey old fascist Louis Farrakhan simply and solely because he bugs out whitey. Meanwhile, I can't tell what John Howard's up to.