By Darryl Mason
Murdoch tabloid journalist, and Liberal Party Yoda, Andrew Bolt, likes to praise himself when his predictions about Australian politics come true.
He would appear to have a pretty good track record, but it's an illusion.
Bolt makes dozen of predictions a month, so obviously there's a good chance that one or two of them might come true, months or years later.
Here's Andrew Bolt's latest prediction :
My tip is that Rudd is now finished and will be replaced. I’m guessing this could even occur within four weeks
I will bet Andrew Bolt $1000, to the charity of his choice, that prime minister Kevin Rudd will neither quit nor be overthrown by colleagues by June 28.
Will Andrew Bolt take the bet?
Will he announce on his radio show and in his blog that he is so confident in his prediction of Rudd's imminent political demise that he is willing to wager $1000 that Rudd will be gone inside four weeks from today?
No, he won't.
But I wait to be pleasantly surprised.
My own ability to Nostradamus Australian political tremors and earthquakes is, however, disturbingly accurate (kind of) or simply downright obvious (more likely). Here's a bunch of predictions I made before the 2007 Federal Election :
Labor Wins By Five Seats
Howard Loses Bennelong
Liberals Retain Wentworth
Greens Nail 14% Of National Vote
John Howard Brutalised In Media By Liberal Party Colleagues For Losing Election
Peter Costello Announces Retirement
Tony Abbott Announces Retirement
Malcolm Turnbull Fights For Liberal Leadership Against Demented Far Right
John Howard Embarks On $100,000 Per Speech Tour Of American NeoCon Think Tanks
Liberal Party Fractures, Descends Into Savage Infighting
Shelf Full Of New Books Reveal Dark Secrets Behind John Howard's Years As Prime Minister
John Howard To Score Knighthood From Queen
The Shape Of Rudd's 'New Labor Conservatism' Comes Into Focus - Lefties Grow More Nervous By The Day About Future
Peter Garrett Quits Politics, Rejoins Midnight Oil To Fight Rudd's Pro-Logging, Pro-Nuclear New Labor
Philip Ruddock Quits Politics To Take On Role As Mr Burns In Non-Animated Simpsons Movie
Obviously a couple of those were jokes, but I'm totally disappointed Fox never went ahead with the live action movie of The Simpsons. Ruddock would have been absolutely brilliant as Mr Burns.
You can e-mail Andrew Bolt here - bolta@heraldsun.com.au - and challenge him to accept my wager.
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