Abbott gives supporters bum steer Tony Abbott appears to have hit the bottom again in his desire to run the country. Desperate as he was to become prime minister after last election's hung parliament, Mr Abbott reportedly told independent MP Tony Windsor he would do anything to win government, except sell his arse. On Monday, the Opposition Leader went even further, assuring an audience of mostly elderly Liberal Party members that "no one , however smart, however well educated, however experienced ... is the suppository of all wisdom." Words on wisdom: Liberal followers listen to Tony Abbott at the Ringwood campaign office. Mr Abbott's travelling mentor, Philip Ruddock, squirmed and the Victorian MP Josh Frydenberg took a few seconds to register what his leader had said. The man nodded gravely. As so often happens these days with political gaffes, within 30 minutes the hashtag #suppository was trending on Twitter, accompanied by photo-shopped images of Mr Abbott with rectally inspired captions ("know your enema," "squeezing out a policy," etc). Mr Abbott had flown to Melbourne to spruik Liberal candidate Michael Sukkar, who hopes to steal the marginal seat of Deakin from Labor; and to commiserate over Melbourne's terrible traffic and repeat his promise to spend $1.5 billion building the East-West link. First stop was the Vic Roads traffic management centre in Kew - a stuffy office where about a dozen people watch traffic for a living.