It really is time for this spineless wonder to go:
Politics can bring out the best in people. But more often than not it can bring out the worst. Some people so love politics and power that they can lose any last vestige of their humanity, and they are happy to treat others like dirt if it helps them to advance their climb up the political ladder.
Such political junkies are a dime a dozen, and we see this very much on display in folks like the Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto. His appalling treatment of Christian conservative Party member Moira Deeming is a really sad and ugly example of this.
He wanted her expelled from the Party, but he was rolled yesterday in a Party room meeting when it was clear that his own party did not agree with him on this. And what actually happened at that meeting is something we all need to be aware of. As to that, the most important 8-minute video you will watch this week is found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DarcOol_pYY
It features Peta Credlin of Sky News discussing what transpired yesterday morning, and it includes powerful quotes from a very moving speech by Moira as she sought to defend herself against the moronic and blatantly false accusations that Pesutto and the secular left media were making against her.
Credlin informs us that Pesutto and three of his henchmen first made speeches, seeking to get Deeming booted out of the Parliamentary Party. But then not one, not two, but TEN Liberal Party colleagues got up and spoke in defence of Deeming. Wow.
That was followed by one of the most important and powerful speeches heard in the Party room. Deeming’s defence was so moving that many of her colleagues were brought to tears. And it is clear that after she had finished, most Libs wanted nothing to do with kicking her out.
So Pesutto was forced to briefly adjourn the meeting and head out with his lackeys. He then came back with Plan B: a nine-month suspension of Deeming. So the vote to expel her never took place. What a gutless wonder. What a political hack. He does not seem to have a decent bone in his body. He threw Moira under the bus just to save his own political skin. What a disgusting leader.
It is not Moira who should be suspended – it is Pesutto who should be expelled. And many now are wondering just that: how long will he last as leader? He was rolled big time by his own colleagues, and he is now walking on very shaky ground. The sooner he goes the better.
As Credlin reminds us, Deeming will be back in action around Christmas. The question is, will Pesutto be around then? And wouldn’t it be ironic if there were enough intelligent and principled Libs who actually made Moira the leader instead! It is not likely, but we can always pray for miracles. Perhaps one day she will lead the Party while Pesutto is long gone.
Credlin closed her monologue with these words: “This has been a terrible own goal from the beginning, and at every point when John Pesutto could have pulled back, he instead chose to make it worse – and worse its got. If the Liberal Party will no longer welcome conservatives into its ranks, well, the conservative side of politics really is in diabolical trouble.”
As to Deeming’s speech, if I find a full copy of it I will likely offer here in full. In the meantime, you can listen to excerpts of it from the link I shared above. Also, one news outlet has shared some of the quotes, so let me present some of that here:
In a speech to the party room, she revealed she had been raped as a child and sexually assaulted which is what drove her actions, according to the speech provided to Sky News host Peta Credlin. “I note that many of you are confused and annoyed with me for persisting in taking about women’s rights, intersex rights, gay rights, parents rights and safeguards for women and children,” Ms Deeming told the party room.
“I assure you the reasons are completely and utterly based on love and compassion, not any sort of bigotry – and not even on religion or conservative politics. When I speak on these issues, I speak from personal experience. My life has been marred repeatedly by rape – at the hands of men – from the age of four.
“I have been assaulted in public facilities, I was sexually harassed and assaulted by a teacher who later went to jail for having sex with minors. I am driven by a desire to make sure other children and women don’t suffer like I did.”
She said her uncle who helped to raise her was Jewish and the survivor of the Holocaust, which is why she said the allegations she had Nazi links were untrue and “deeply and personally offensive and hurtful.”
As Credlin makes clear, throughout this entire episode, Pesutto still wanted her expelled. It was only after it was evident that his own party did not agree with him that he had to go to an alternative. What a loser. What lousy piece of work.
As I say, politics can often bring out the worst in people. We had this on full display with Pesutto.
But politics can often bring out the best in people. We had this on full display with Deeming.
God bless you Moira. We stand with you and we will keep you in our prayers. We need more champions like you.
Thank you for this article and for your support of Moira and women and children. God bless.
Thanks Naomi.
Well said Bill
I can agree 100% with your article
Thanks for supporting Moira, women and children’s rights
God bless you
Rod
Thank you Rod.
And out of this mess, we are trusting God will make a way…..
What men intended for evil – God will use for Good.
Goinna be praying we have Moira as our Vic Lib Leader.
We serve a Mighty God of Miracles….
Quite right Melinda.
AMEN!
Bill – help me out here, please.
If a majority of her colleagues voted against (or would have voted against Moira Deeming’s expulsion) on what grounds did her colleagues decide to suspend her?
You would have to ask them Neil. But it seems it was about saving face – bailing out Pesutto.
It takes a big man to admit you were wrong. Pesutto, however, is a dog.
I think my dog disagrees.
Meanwhile more evidence of who the real bullies are:
I believe that your heading to this story is still on the money, but what are we to make of Mr Pesutto’s inner circle describing Moira and her sympathisers within the Victorian Parliamentary Liberal Party as “terrorists”? This is playing politics for high stakes. The inner circle describe themselves as Moderates, trying to portray Moira and friends as extremists, when they should be referred to as true conservatives in that their only ‘sin’ is to defend the biological rights of women against the transgender incursion. To say that John Pesutto is Dan Andrews ‘useful idiot’ is a damning indictment of his leadership, especially when he was warned from within the Liberal Party that expelling Moira was not going to turn out well. Some commentators are saying that the Victorian Libs are going further to the Left, thereby making themselves unelectable in comparison to the Andrews Government. So what is Mr Pesutto’s plan? Has anyone read or heard what his manifesto is apart from his self-styled claims to inclusive leadership? I’d rather the clarity of Moira Deeming.
Yes Russell, the Libs are putting on a master class in how to commit political suicide.
Thank you for this article and for your support of Moira and women and children. God bless.
Thanks Naomi.
Well said Bill
I can agree 100% with your article
Thanks for supporting Moira, women and children’s rights
God bless you
Rod
Thank you Rod.
And out of this mess, we are trusting God will make a way…..
What men intended for evil – God will use for Good.
Goinna be praying we have Moira as our Vic Lib Leader.
We serve a Mighty God of Miracles….
Quite right Melinda.
AMEN!
Bill – help me out here, please.
If a majority of her colleagues voted against (or would have voted against Moira Deeming’s expulsion) on what grounds did her colleagues decide to suspend her?
You would have to ask them Neil. But it seems it was about saving face – bailing out Pesutto.
It takes a big man to admit you were wrong. Pesutto, however, is a dog.
I think my dog disagrees.
Meanwhile more evidence of who the real bullies are:
https://www.christianpost.com/news/the-covenant-school-transgender-killer-and-her-6-victims.html
I believe that your heading to this story is still on the money, but what are we to make of Mr Pesutto’s inner circle describing Moira and her sympathisers within the Victorian Parliamentary Liberal Party as “terrorists”? This is playing politics for high stakes. The inner circle describe themselves as Moderates, trying to portray Moira and friends as extremists, when they should be referred to as true conservatives in that their only ‘sin’ is to defend the biological rights of women against the transgender incursion. To say that John Pesutto is Dan Andrews ‘useful idiot’ is a damning indictment of his leadership, especially when he was warned from within the Liberal Party that expelling Moira was not going to turn out well. Some commentators are saying that the Victorian Libs are going further to the Left, thereby making themselves unelectable in comparison to the Andrews Government. So what is Mr Pesutto’s plan? Has anyone read or heard what his manifesto is apart from his self-styled claims to inclusive leadership? I’d rather the clarity of Moira Deeming.
Yes Russell, the Libs are putting on a master class in how to commit political suicide.