Politicians will be politicians...

There is a great big but at the end of this. I understand that when a politician switches sides people will be angry and names will be called. As I watch the endless news coverage of Belinda Stronach becoming a liberal (see below) I expect all the normal bitterness. This isn't the first time a politican crossed the floor but this is the first time that I remember hearing a politician called a whore. I apologize if my details are a bit fuzzy but as I watched the National this evening someone called Stronach a political (he used a different word I don't remember)whore, and someone else called her a dipstick, an attractive one but still a dipstick. I don't think these same remarks were uttered when Scott Brison crossed the floor over a year ago. Brison received criticism but he was not called a whore or a dipstick. I'm not going to get into an it happened because she's a woman argument, but what happened to common decency in any aspect of life. Is Stronach ambitious - yes - power hungry - probably - but do either of these things make her any kind of whore? No.