What particular political posturing and how would Tony Abbott have done things differently. Give me some examples please because I can't respond to waffle.
And BTW - do I think Labour and JG in particular have excelled themselves??? Nope. I just see no credible alternative at the moment and "giving the other guy a go" is the most moronic approach I can think of because it forces both sides to be very short sighted. Rudd should have taken ETS and the mining tax to the people and trusted them with the call...
Moody - here is the record of the current and ex-Rudd govenment.
Stolen Generations empty symbolism, 20/20 gabfest, botched reforms resulting in employee share ownership being unworkable, Kyoto Protocol empty symbolism, unjustified alcopops tax, BER waste, pink batts waste, grocery watchdog, cash for clunkers, increased illegal boat arrivals, the deficit, RSPT debacle, panicked response to GFC resulting in blown surplus and a delay of GFC from 2008 to 2013, the RSPT then MRRT debacle, record government advertising (the cancer of society), expensive renewable energy schemes, knifing of their own PM in first term, there will be no carbon tax under a government I lead, larger and less efficient public sector, wafer thin illusionary surplus becoming larger defecits, live cattle trade debacle still affecting cattle farmers, an NBN without cost benefit analysis, government borrowing forcing interest rates higher, malaysia and east timor solutions abandoned, the flood levy, MDBA screw-ups, class warfare rhetoric, australian network tender screwup, Craig Thompson and Peter Slipper scandals, PM's office implicated in australia day riots, breakdown of federal/state relations, loss of Private Health rebate, tax increases for everyone over $80K, rising unemployment, continued fiddling with superannuation rules, education tax refund backflip, Fair Work Act resulting in more strikes, HSU scandal, threats to the freedom of press by captain underpants, throwing away taxpayers $$ on car industry assistance, worthy but still unfunded NDIS and Gonski schemes, fishing trawler backflip, john mctiernans imported scottish class warfare and spin, the brutal treatment of senior minister such as Crean and Ferguson from the leadership challenge that never was, the "failure is not an option" budget surplus becoming a defecit based on ridiculously optimistic treasury forcasting, ministers simply making up data about 457 visas, wildly optimistic assumptions in treasury forecasting resulting in budgets that are works of fiction, increasing federal interference in areas of state responsibility such as health, education and the environment/planning with resultant duplication and waste, high australian dollar partly due to interest rates which affects all of australias exporters, no budget surplus in sight.... and anyone whom points any of these things out must be a misogynist or some represent some sort of vested interest.
You can bet that they will not be running on this record during the election campaign, hence the scare campaign and personal attacks on Tony Abbott....
Maybe you have to be an employer to see where some of the major issues are but I doubt it. 
