Thursday, September 21, 2006

Has she lost it?

Over the morning I have been absorbing the various reactions to the PM's attack on Brash. She has lost it, seems to be a general consensus. I don't believe she has.

She repeated herself throughout the day in those same measured and deliberate tones.

Remember she called the seabed and foreshore hikoi (by implication all Maori) "haters and wreckers" and she got away with it. She gambled on getting non-Maori onside and it paid off.

Now she is gambling on getting Maori and the Left back onside. Not without reason, she is playing us for fools.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I disagree slightly - your last line should read she is `trying' to play us for fools.

At this stage I don't think her strategy is working and if anything she is just digging a deeper hole for herself.

It may not be too long before the `men in white coats' come to take her away. Or will there be a coup within the labour party - is there any non sycophant there to lead the way??

pdm

Anonymous said...

Of course her strategy is working. Who's talking about the $800,000 anymore? The purpose for the smears was to divert attention from the illegal use of state funds for Labour's election. It worked.