Why is anyone still listening to Rudd?

Just over a month or so ago Australia was ready to punt the federal government for the average job that they have done over the last 3 years and for the disgraceful behaviour of the party as a whole by removing a prime minister. Then we had 3 years of Rudd destabilisation of his leader and party and then there was the mistrust and basic dislike for Gillard and then what do you know “nek minnit” another leader stabbed in the back.

However since Rudd turned up there has been a change and I can’t work out why. I am mystified why anyone is still listening to Rudd let alone considering voting Labor after his and the behaviour of his party over the last 3 years. Over the last week I have been listening to him rabbit on about how well the economy has been managed and how well everything running now that he is back in charge. What justification is there for that statement?

If the economy is doing so well and the party he leads has done such a great job why is he taking credit for it? He can’t possibly take any credit for it as he wasn't leading the party - Gillard was and if everything was going so well and the government that he leads had done such a great job as he keeps telling me why is he the leader and not Gillard who did all the hard work?

Doesn't make sense to me, the reason Rudd is in power and not Gillard is his act of retribution and 3 years of the willful destabilisation of his own party. The reality is that this is exactly the same government that was there when he was in power the first time and stuffed up. It is the same party that Gillard was running and stuffed up and now he is back- it’s still the same party, changing the leader changes nothing! It’s like saying I will change the badge on my Holden with a Mazda and it may make it run better.

Oh and before anyone asks “well what about changes to the asylum seeker policy? He is fixing that up as well as the other things he has fixed since he came back?” Well first of all “fixed” is right he has to as he is trying to fix things Rudd / Gillard and his party stuffed up in the first place. Anyway I am not sure if he is not making things worse. I am not sure hitting us with new tax’s is “better” and sending so called boat people to New Guinea is far from a solution to the issue in my opinion. Oh sure, I hear you ask but what about the low interest rates?  Well what about them? It seems to me that the reserve bank is actually running the economy now not the government. The only reason the reserve keeps lowering interest rates is to try and keep the economy going and stop it stalling completely and sliding into recession because clearly the government has run out of bloody ideas, oh except to introduce more tax’s.

Making a few self-serving political changes over a few weeks leading up to an election doesn't a government make nor will it undo the 3 years of poor government or the crap Rudd has put us and his own party through just to get back into power.