Reasons you will hate me

Nah, we're probably okay. But only because Peter Costello wants him to join my fucking football team.

oh god, you poor fucker. Is it too late to barrack for someone else?

Good Lord- We'll put this idea in the "Cheryl Kernot, Mary Delahunty, Mark Latham" file. Also known as the "Ends in tears" file.

At least they looked like a good idea on paper...

I can't find a single watercolour, oil, pastel or charcoal of Aker that would make him look like a good political prospect.

thomasr

perhaps we could organise some sort of trade?

oh wait, we don't want anybody from the dark side.

in which case, i propose we get all high school girls' clique on him and call him fat and ugly until he sits somewhere else at lunch.

could work.

I would actually like to see the political system take some ideas from the AFL.

Imagine a draft. Aker and Garrett would go into the pot and the parties would have to draft them in. I'd prefer Aker, personally, but you know

We could trade a poor-performing Beazley for an Abbott to work as a tagger in the defensive line. He may be dirty, but he's one of the best taggers in the league.

Or offer Howard a 1-year contract, because he is getting long in the tooth and we don't offer more than 12 months to players over 60.

but girls don't play in the afl. well, genetic girls don't. so what, then, about "our julia"?

at least he'd be a chance of winning over 'middle australia'

larson b
silver lining

But... he has an Action Figure!!! What could be cooler than pollie action figures?

But la nadine, based on recent high school girl reactions to J. Winston can we be sure they won't welcome him into the fold, braid his hair, paint his toenails and with him plan a full scale ostracisation against the left?

Noooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!
Hang let me think about this... Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!

who respects the political circus sufficiently to care if another clown signs up?

At least we know he's an idiot going in rather than finding out he's an idiot down the track.

Also, while most politicians are grandstanding, OUR Aker will be handstanding. He's that good!

Hate to be picky, but since when did Labor=left?

Aker SCREAMS Labor to me.

I get your point though.

Fits,

You know very little about liberals. It's very close minded of you to write us all off as one and the same.

Given your stance on issues such as gay rights and race relations, it's also highly hypocritical.

Demble - presumably, being a Liberal is supposed to stand for something which, at the moment, includes some sort of ideological alignment with John H. I'm not supposing anyobody knows the nuanced intricacies of every Liberal's outlook (obviously there are Liberals who hate John H as well), but the fact someone is a Liberal means that they subscribe to a certain PUBLIC point of view on certain matters - which makes them, to some extent, fair game for criticism/teasing. As far as I know, gay people and people from particular races don't have a public ideology that lumps them together in some way.

WTF is it with labor and sports people. Most of these ex-sports stars have zero political talent or experience.
They get stacked in and spend the rest of their political careers on the backbench.
Meanwhile the hard working non-famous branch members get the shits as hacks swan in and take over. It is no surprise the number of member in the ALP keeps falling.
Sure Aker can kick a goal but would you really want him representing you in the big house?

And he hasn't kicked too many goals lately. Also not known as a team player, (in fact the 'leadership group' at the Lions want him gone), bodes well for future caucus debates doesn't it? The cult of celebrity - even dodgy celebrity is well and truly upon us. We have Simon Madden, Peter Garrett, why not get Warney involved, after all, if Paul Barry has his facts right, he may well have rooted more Australians than any other contemporary politician with the exception, of Abbott, Costello, Howard, Riddock, Vanstone, Tuckey - oh well.. maybe not.

Doug