The John Valder interview onlast week's Sunday program was very revealing. The idea (beautifully articulated by Renata Kaldor), that for otherwise generally conservative voters, any risk to the economy by a Latham Labour Government was, at least in the short term, a worthy alternative to the social disruption of a return of Howard, was a winner. My guess is there are lots of people who feel this way, and need this idea to be seeded and made an acceptable and responsible option.

This festering Howard boil of dishonesty, public information manipulation, and fear-mongering abuse of human rights is not going to go away. It would be a pity if those voters not in the {Valder campaign} targeted seats felt they were stuck with their fears and uncertainties. They need to be helped come to terms with the idea of 'anyone but Howard', and helped to understand they are acting in the true cause of liberalism and comfortable with the idea that rather than abandoning their political loyalties, they are in fact reestablishing them. As Renata Kaldor said ... if only for three years, it needs to be done.

This campaign need to go national.

That anyone, John Valder or anyone, should feel nervous 'coming out' is an index what our gang of four (Howard, Downer, Abbott, Ruddock) have done to our country.

It seems all the threads are coming together just at the right time. I'm not the street corner campaigner sort-of-guy but am thinking that there is/will be a need for local and national newspaper ads along this line. I'll contact the Valder team - it seems this is the eye-of-the-storm.