Just when you thought the Liberal Party couldn't be any more unelectable . . .
The Opus Dei wing of the party has won a seat in Federal Parliament.
The electorate of Mitchell lies smack-bang in the middle of Jesusland (a.k.a. the Hills district of north-western Sydney) and is thus safe Liberal territory*. In 2006, Alex Hawke--who believes moderate Liberals should instead join the Greens--branch-stacked and bully-boyed his way into the Liberal candidacy. In what might someday come to be known as the "Hawke-Clarke hijack," Hawke and David "The Teacher" Clarke have extended the influence of the uber-Christian Right over the Liberal Party in NSW and the Young Liberals nationally.
And I say more power to them. The more lunar and extremist the Liberals appear, the further they will fade into the electoral wilderness where they belong.
(P.S. Super Simmo has returned to the blogosphere!)
(*Admittedly, there was a 9.6% swing to the ALP in Mitchell.)
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