Look, it's a clear as anything that Clive Palmer gets votes by being the anti-politician politician, and as such his support is from the politically un-engaged. We seem to have a lot of those in Queensland, where Palmer polls an extraordinary 14%.
Still, as with Pauline Hanson, it can't last. The flakiness and insubstantiality eventually seeps through into enough of the electorate, although with Hanson it was perhaps the impression that she was a mere dumb puppet for the men around her who wanted to get ahead that caused her downfall.
The problem is Clive is the opposite - he uses others as puppets, up to and including visiting US (former) Vice Presidents, and we have to wait for the breakup of his Senators into a fractious disunity, with inside stories of Clive behind the scenes, to see his downfall.
Well, that's how I think it will go. Labor doesn't seem quite up to raising money to fund the jailing of a political opponent, as Tony Abbott did.
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