What's offensive is that she's a Minister Seriously, the Liberals need to lift their game. No-one is going to check the fine print that shows that the minister does not stutter! I wouldn't. I couldn't care less. A Labour beat- up response it may be, but it works with the information poor. If the Liberals think that they've won the next election, then they're heading for defeat. They'll spend the next few weeks or months spinning around in stupified circles whining about how Ruddy has contradicted himself, and whining about all the lies the ALP machine and its media fifth column is spreading, and snivelling about how no-one is listening to their arguments, and then they'll lose. Like Sophie Mirabella on QandA! I am sure Abbott and his crew are going to be Palin-ized in the following weeks; the ALP and its minions are desperate and they've got king Crazy leading them! Don't think there won't be a whole slew of lefty journalists co-ordinating their message pro-ALP in the coming weeks, and spreading the lies anti-Lib at the same time!) The difference between Rudd and Abbott? Rudd has no self-doubt at all, none! Abbott is a seething mass of self-doubt and uncertainty. (example, he was for the proposed referendum changes affecting councils, and now he is kinda don't know against it or something.)