Isn't he a nowhere man, living in a nowhere land, making up his nowhere plans, for nobody.Doesn't have a point of view, knows not where he's going to .....
Did youu have the misfortune of watching Alan Carpenter's retirement announcement on ABC TV last night?
The interview was marked by immaturity and superficiality.
The ALP Caucas gave Jim McGinty the failed former minister a free hand to pick leading lights for safe seats and Carpenter was his fifth choice after five knockbacks.
No person can claim to be grown up if they don't take responsibility for their own decisions. Carpenter blamed everybody except himself for his demise. He followed his own well trodden path of scoring off his colleagues.
When asked to make some comment on his term he could say nothing more profound than he "had a wonderful vision" and he "got rid of Brian Burke, for which he deserved a big tick".
His lament at the loss of superannuation was a far cry from his high profile sanctimony when he self righteously campaigned for its abolition in the first blush of his Parliamentary term. He told some of his colleagues including Kim Chance, that it was" the biggest mistake of my life".
The Desert Rat knew Alan Carpenter and saw him as an abject failure, bereft of ideas to contribute to the ALP and Parliament.
Graeme Campbell got him right, from day one, two decades ago, when he told me he was a pissant.
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