is john howard a leftist or rightist or both?

Question

ok, so his party is called "liberal" he hates guns and wants them banned BUT he is pro-war on terror and pro traditional white australian values.....what is he? or is australia just totally differant from america when it comes to party platforms?

would this guy be a republican if he lived in the states?

Answer 1

he is just a ******

Answer 2

First find out what liberal really means. The current US usage of the word is plain wrong.

Guns - well in my personal opinion Howard did more or less the right thing with the recall of semi-automatic rifles. That would be one of the very few things he has done almost right. There is no repeat no reason for a non-farm person or non-professional hunter to own one. However for some people they are a useful tool. So the ban probably went too far.

I have known people who have done a lot of shooting and have collections of firearms. I would trust nearly all of them. But not all, one or two have been loonies. Give them a semi-automatic? Not if you have any sense. If they have to work a bolt action they can only kill a few before the cops get them.

Howard has damn all to do with traditional white Australian values. He disgusts me in fact. I consider much of his legislation regressive and un-Australian and I'm hoping that Maxine McKew defeats him in his own seat so the little b*stard is out of Parliament on his ear.

The state premier of Queensland, the third biggest state was once a man called Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, from a Danish family. He was premier for far too long and got to thinking he could do anything. He got booted out after a corruption scandal and was lucky to escape a jail term. Howard has been acting much the same way.

I can't understand why he went with Bush into Iraq. Afghanistan, yes, anyone might support that. But it was blo*dy obvious even in 2003 that the reasons given for the war in Iraq were dodgy and some of the "evidence" presented to the UN was laughable. It is is a great shame that the UN diplomats were diplomatic and did not laugh publicly in Gen. Powell's face. Drawings made up from aerial or satellite photos of mobile chemical warfare factories indeed! You had to be kidding. Gen Powell however did have the grace to remove himself, he must have been embarassed by the farce.

Howard's cabinet ministers keep in spouting the same old drivel about terrorism and democracy in Iraq but I and a lot of people keep discounting anything they say as lies.

If he were in the USA I could not say whether he would be a donkey or an elephant. Here he's a dingo.

Answer 3

The Liberal Party in Australia was a liberal party when it was first formed by Robert Menzies sixty years ago but it is no longer. It is a hard right party, getting further to the right and is being taken over, in NSW at least, by the religious right. John Howard is as conservative as they come. He is only against guns, if he is at all, because the popular opinion in Australia is against guns. People in general do not own guns in Australia, even in the country.

Howard is possibly not the worst Prime Minister we have had and he is certainly not the best. He is, however, by far the nastiest person to hold the office. He is a gutless, bigoted, intolerant piece of scum. (I had better stop before I say what I really think) Fortunately it won't be for too much longer, he and his rabble will be kicked out at the election later this year.

He would certainly be a Republican in the USA.

Answer 4

I spent 17 years in Australia. John Howard is somewhere in the middle. He leads the Liberal Party. I like his honesty, especially in presenting an unpopular Goods & Services Tax at the time he was elected a few terms ago.

Answer 5

Yes he would be a Republican. He's a religious nutter, anti-worker, anti-poor, racist and a toady to the worst president America has ever had. I'm a NZer. I hope everybody understands enough geography to realise that Aussie and NZ are different countries. The anti-gun legislation was just about the only thing he's got right.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

He's a psycho concerned about his own power and not morals or the people, just like the rest of the politicians.