Andrew Bolt: Liberals too scared to fight for their own principles

With the Liberal Party too scared to fight for their principles and almost nothing of substance on paper to divide the two parties, how else can they smash each other but with personal attacks?

There’s a depressing reason this election is so nasty: the Liberals are too scared to fight for their own principles.

On Thursday, Liberal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced: “Climate change is one of the biggest issues the world faces.”

But 15 years ago, the Liberals jeered when Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said much the stupid same: “Climate change is the great moral change of our generation.”

This surrender to the global warming scare is typical of the new “net zero” Liberals.

They’ve now spent as wildly as Labor, got into more debt than Labor, plan as little workplace reform as Labor and are just as silent as Labor about plans to cut our massive spending, now that inflation is roaring back.

So what’s the point of the Liberals? Well, their best argument now seems to be they’re better at giving you Labor policies.

The Liberals best argument is that Labor leader Anthony Albanese seems clueless about even his own policies

Labor dreams them up, and the Liberals first fight them, then deliver them. But more carefully, of course.

Just check out the spineless Victorian Liberals last week.

One of the critical founding faiths of the Liberal Party is protecting the individual from the collective, or the tribe.

So Liberals should be fighting with passion against the new racism of the Left, that stops treating as us as individuals and instead divides us by race, with different voting rights, different court systems, different welfare payments, and different access to jobs.

But last week the Victorian Liberals announced they’d even surrendered in this battle, dropping their opposition to negotiating a “treaty” with people claiming to be Aboriginal.

Yes, once again the Victorian Liberals are now for what they used to be against. They now agree with Labor on negotiating on a treaty with the state-backed First People’s Assembly of Victoria, a racist parliament just for people saying they’re Aboriginal.

But look at the assembly’s members. You must be blind or dumb to believe they’re so different to the rest of us that they need different rights.

Or you must be gutless, like the Liberals, and it’s this kind of gutlessness that’s given us this bitter election campaign.

With almost nothing of substance on paper to divide the two parties, how else can they smash each other but with insults and personal attacks?

That’s why the Liberals’ best argument is that Labor leader Anthony Albanese seems clueless about even his own policies (and they’re right).

So who better to deliver Labor policies than the Liberals’ leader, Scott Morrison?