Is Kevin Rudd a charismatic nut job? A
man who is so duplicitous and despotic that the business of running the country
became paralyzed under his first prime ministership? So monomaniacal that for
three solid years he furtively undermined Julia Gillard at every opportunity
until he at last destroyed her? All of this, remarkably, has been suggested by
those in the best position to know, Australian Labor Party parliamentarians,
from Senator Wong to Bill Shorten and Kate Ellis. Why, then, have these
ostensibly sane people done the bidding of a highly dysfunctional character –
again, their
depiction – by allowing themselves to be embroiled in his revenge fantasy?
This article can be read in full at the following link:
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/qed/2013/06/rudd-s-flush-of-blood
