Shane Reti - (the Rejuvenated, 'new look') Simon Bridges - David Seymour: What Do These 'Politicoes' Have in Common? Like Thursday's Child (I Believe) They Each Seemingly 'Have Far to Go'...

The latter - for all the obvious reasons (politically) these days, after holding a campaign meeting where 600 of the disgruntled and disenfranchised and dispossessed - compare his illustrious ancient namesake's 400 men which included/comprised every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented as he and such like hid in the caves and munitions of the rocks as they hid from the tyrannical King Saul then terrorizing the land...

The erstwhile National Party leader (twice removed) as he successfully manages to rework and reshape his public persona by simply coming across as an immeasurably more relaxed and at ease, personable and likeable 'fellow' but a few short weeks after 'relinquishing' his party's leadership to firstly Todd Muller and then Judith Collins...

And National's new fleet-footed and deeply thoughtful Health spokesperson as he manages to ne'er put a foot wrong, managing to put Labour's own 'newbie' Health Minister on notice that he not only means business in deadly earnest but has moreover managed to grasp the wisdom long understood, written about, and promoted 'out there' to one and all (by Yours Truly)...

*firstly, as  a freelance writer over in Geeveston, Tasmania, Australia back in 1998-1999...

**secondly, in 2008 as an independent candidate in Aotearoa-New Zealand's General Election that year...  

and ever since my second blogsite got up and running back on August the First (or thereabouts), 2012, i.e. in the words of the selfsame subtitle/motto upon that (formerly main) blogsite davidedwinisms: 

bestowing brickbats and bouquets with fear of and favour towards none!

*/**In both these first two instances I'm referring to my opinion piece 'Why Must they Always Disagree?', which I put 'out there' to a couple of Aussie newspapers at that time (1998/1999) - and later (after returning to God's Own) to at least one New Zealand newspaper, in particular the Southland Times, whose then editorial column 'reviewer' returned it with a thorough but scathing evaluation; subsequently used as my personal 'manifesto' as I went door-to-door in the painstaking effort to win the then electorate of Dunedin South, ultimately garnering the grand total of 222 votes (or 0.6 percent of all votes cast); and finally posted upon my then new (first) blogsite 

'Nuff Said:consideryourself-frombothsidesnow.blogspot.co.nz/ (or .com/), back in June or July 2012.

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