If you’re wondering how loons like Anthony Albanese and ‘Dictator Dan’ Andrews got elected, look no further than some of the state branches of the Liberal Party. If the federal party for the last 20 years has seemed hell bent on doing everything it could to drive away its centre-right base, some of the state branches make woke, wet, National in NZ seem to the right of NZ First.
None more so than the Victorian branch.
These limp lettuce leaves not only elect spineless jellyfish like recently deposed John Pesutto, they turn and bite the hands of donors trying desperately to save them from themselves.
The Victorian Liberal Party is exploding in acrimony over the Cormack Foundation’s handling of its huge wealth despite a donation to form a new policy unit to help unseat Labor at next year’s state election […]
Cormack, which is chaired by prominent businessman Charles Goode, has agreed to fund a special policy unit inside the Liberal secretariat to prepare for what it hopes is the transition to government at the 2026 state election.
For fuck’s sake, this ought to be a no-brainer. The state Labor government and premier Jacinta Allan are in the poll toilet. Cormack are trying to give the Libs a fistful of money to develop an electable policy platform.
So, what do the Vic Libs do? Demand that the money be used to bail out the idiot former leader whose own big mouth landed him in court.
The opposition is struggling to work out how to keep Mr Pesutto, the former state leader, from bankruptcy after he lost his defamation case against [Moira Deeming].
If he goes bankrupt he will be ineligible to remain in the parliament.
What’s there to struggle to work out? Pesutto is a clown. He lost the case not only because he, against all evidence, slandered Deeming as ‘associated with Nazis’ and ‘white supremacists’, but resolutely refused to apologise. The fool made his own bed, and it’s not for the party to use members’ funds to bail him out.
Senior Liberals are questioning why Cormack, one of the nation’s wealthiest political donors, has refused to help Mr Pesutto to prevent a possible by-election in a state seat that is a key part of Kooyong.
Because he’s an idiot, that’s why. The party would frankly be well shot of him and the rest of the gaggle of dripping-wet ‘moderates’ who do nothing but run, bleating ‘Us, too!’, after the green left.
Tensions between Cormack and the Liberal Party exploded in 2016 when the foundation donated $25,000 each to Family First and the Liberal Democrats, which preferenced against the Liberals in two seats.
Under former Liberal president Michael Kroger, court action was taken against Cormack but the party failed to seize control of the corpus.
Now the anger at Cormack has spread beyond the Kroger years.
“What is the point of Cormack if it’s not to defend a Liberal leader?’’ one senior MP said.
No, the real question is: what is the point of the Liberals, if they’re going to defend, tooth and nail, an indefensible, woke idiot?
Cormack, for their part, appear keen to not throw good money after bad. Why donate money to an ersatz green party if you’re a conservative group? Hardly value for money, you’d think.
Cormack also donates to the federal Liberal Party but not before senior figures are asked to stipulate exactly how the money will be used, in what is seen as a political begging process.
Or, more likely, hard-headed businessmen trying desperately to save a woke, wet bunch of conservatives-in-name-only from themselves.
In vain, it seems, in Victoria.
