if there is one thing that Queensland seems to do in spades its produce populist political nutters with god complexes after the rise and fall and massive ego of of Pauline Hanson we now have Clive Palmer. Who now thinks that he will be able to ride the coat tails of his own propaganda machine into some sort of real power in the state government here.
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I’ll give him credit for having lots of front but the test of his eponymous party will be when its senators take up their seats. Some how I think that we will see a re run of the “one nation show” where a cohort of non politicians got into office only to find that their leader and inspiration was a totally delusional player who believed her own propaganda. Palmer makes Hanson look like a political genius by comparison. Worse yet he has the dosh to play the game in a way that Hanson and One nation could only dream of.
In another place I was asked about what we conservatives find funny, given the fact that the majority of comedians and other “creative” types tend to be left wing. Well Palmer makes me chuckle every time he is mentioned. Its not just his posturing and tendency to the outlandish (like dinosaurs on his golf course and the Titanic 11)but its also his childlike grudges and essentially acting like a spoilt brat when he can’t get what he wants. Newman stymied his development ambitions so now Palmer wants to take over the state government…
Only in Queensland Comrades
Sigh………………….
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