Victorian Liberals have been quick to share blame for one of their greatest internal crises of disunity ever. We will soon be playing the blame game, which will involve some of the Liberal's most senior figures but we'd prefer to wait for the The Sunday Age's deadline to pass so they don't steal all the blood and gore on the 104 Exhibition Street carpet from us.
In the mean-time, we'll do some analysis.
UNPRECEDENTED CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE CAUSED BY TED
The unprecedented situation where some of the Liberal party's most senior staff were so struck with despair about their party's leader that they created a cheeky but hardly that contentious website that questioned his ability to lead and his policy direction is perhaps the ultimate measure of just how much bother Baillieu's in.
Their website deserves attention not only because of who wrote it but because of its content.
It is - dare we say it - a much more serious analysis of the failings of the Victorian Liberal lefty leadership that we have previously mounted.
It tells it how it is. It speaks of the contempt with which many regard Baillieu in the Liberal party and the sadness about the situation he has left them in.
Red Ted Baillieu is the wrong man to lead them.
THERE IS ANOTHER WAY
Obvious alternatives exist in the form of Terry Mulder and Andrew McIntosh. Both of those gents have their critics. Mulder is apparently not smooth enough. McIntosh too lazy. But if you're good talent, a good feisty young team around you can fire you up into previously uncontemplated levels of productivity.
Of the young set, there's the dour Michael O'Brien and the flamboyant but upper housed Matthew Guy, who we could easily see behind the Premier's desk some day.
So there are choices. And leaving aside the issue of a website and the unusual origins of it, it is time the Victorian division of the Liberal Party, the one-time jewel in its mighty crown, the wealthiest state branch of any political party in the nation, started making some tough decisions in the interests not only of themselves but all the people of Victoria.
In the interests of furthering that discussion, we have created links to the content of the now defunct site:
Game on.
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