What does Bertie have to do to lose power ?

Fratton Fred wrote:

What has really amazed me, is that the entire country believes Bertie is dodgy, yet not only has he regained power, his party's entire election manifesto appears to have been "We're part of Bertie's team". So not only has Bertie's popularity got him elected, it seems to have worked for 77 other members of his party. :rolleyes:

Yeah, that's amazed me too - most of the election posters seemed to be pictures of Bertie saying "Bertie's Team", instead of promoting the people involved.

If Bertie does get done for his dodgy deals, then there's gonna be a whole heap of "guilt by association", solely by virtue of the approach that FF took!

And yeah, innocent until proven guilty, but he hasn't answered a single question about this stuff to my satisfaction, and remember that he also made a major speech at Haughey's funeral saying what a great guy THAT con-artist was! :mad:

As for the "how did the dumb Americans vote Bush in again ?" reference - that's exactly what I thought.....people in glasshouses and all that.

Footnote: from my own perspective, I can keep asking the above; I'm just now asking it about the "majority" of Irish people as well.....true, the PR system carried FF over the line (e.g. Peter Power in Limerick on Willie O'Dea's transfers) and there's no such system in the U.S., but the fact that enough people vote in a stupid way still raises questions about the sanity of the Irish population.....