You don't need a high IQ to know a good thing when you see it.

Was reading Matt Price's latest witticism in The Australian this evening. What a mind numbing post. He seems to think that Rudd and the ALP are much the same as Howard and the Liberals, only better.

How is it possible that a grown man can be paid to produce this sort of nonsense? If anybody knows please tell me, I'm quite certain I could be encouraged to write comparable nonsense under paid conditions.

Price wasn't even accurate,

"They've not yet lost an election but "not fair" is exactly how Coalition MPs regard their routine hammering in the polls"

Of course they've lost elections. It has never been pretty when it's happened, but obviously in Price Land the Coalition has been running Australia since federation. A suggestion that even a toddler could refute on the existing evidence of such offensive institutions as Medicare.

Nonetheless I was mildly interested in a comment by reader Jeremy the realist of Perth,

"I find it absolutely disgusting that one of Australia's most successful and historically significant leaders can be talked about with such disrespect by a bunch of halfwits and fools. I'm more then willing to bet that the average swine who harps on about 'little Johnny' and his ill ways has an IQ far below the average Liberal voter. Not a single one of my hard working engineer/lawyer/accountant/investment banker mates would ever vote Labor because we all paid attention during our economics lectures and know that Labors policies are riddled with holes. Howard has been consistent and skillful in his stewardship and anyone who votes out someone with his record of success is braindead"

That indicates a lot of 'braindead' people around the joint, and shows that Medicare has not only been a terrible economic and social policy but also has failed to provide appropriate healthcare. Unfortunately however Jeremy appears to be somewhat, 'braindead' because, sadly many of my friends (not the imaginary ones Jeremy has) are actually real, 'engineer/lawyer/accountant/investment banker mates' and some of them would never profess to possessing a high IQ.

Poor old Jimmy, I won't embarrass his family by releasing his surname, is so well known as an absolute twit that hardly a chance meeting with him proceeds without at least one absolute clanger. A mutual friend used to freeze a bottle of water during the summer so that, during the day the ice would melt and provide nicely chilled drinking water. Anyway, as the day progressed the ice would eventually end up floating like a large block in the water.

Jimmy noticed this one afternoon and asked, 'how the heck did you get that piece of ice in the bottle?'.

Well, we cracked up of course. Jimmy is a very successful barrister.

IQ has nothing to do with anything here Jeremy. Voting Liberal is about having class and commonsense, you don't need a high IQ to know the ALP and the Greens are little more than factory workers in a suit. And let's not forget that some ALP voters have high IQ's too.