The Federal election campaign has been rolling along with the usual gaffes and mistakes by Liberal luminaries such as Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott and Kevin Andrews.Then along comes the goose from Blair, Cameron Thompson who claims that higher mortgage repayments for average Australians would be a good thing for the Liberal Party because it would make voters focus on which party was the better economic manager for the nation.
It seems as if a bolt of insanity has hit the Liberal Party with this former rural ABC reporter giving his official endorsement to a rise in interest rates.
No wonder the Prime Minister John Howard went into damage control when he heard these bizarre rantings from one of his most-senior backbenchers in Queensland.
Cameron Thompson is proving to be a complete political novice over his handling of various issues including the upgrading of the Ipswich Motorway.
Now, on the eve of the sixth successive official interest rate rise since 2004, Cameron Thompson is in the media extolling the virtues of such an impost.
If Mr Thompson went to Redbank Plains and tried to explain his comments to the mortgage belt of Ipswich, he would be tarred and feathered and booted out of town quicker than he could say: "Sorry John".
Cameron Thompson has become uncontrollable in recent weeks with the latest polls showing he is likely to lose his seat of Blair.
If Mr Howard doesn't put Cameron Thompson in a straight jacket and a tightly-fitting gag for the next 18 days, this political amateur will guarantee a Labor victory on November 24.
