For Once Someone Will Have Fun Reading Miranda Devine.

Anybody who has ever visited Kissing Suzy Kolber would be familiar with the sites weekly "Fun With Peter King" feature, where Sports Illustrated columnist Peter King's "Monday Morning Quarterback" column is dissected.

So without any further ado, here is "Fun With Miranda Devine."

Column: "Abbott's Sledging Cuts To Finer Points Of Debate"

Once rivalling Bob Hawke as Australia's most popular prime minister, Rudd's voter satisfaction has fallen from a high of 74 per cent last year to a new low of 48 per cent.

He is now neck and neck with the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, on 47 per cent.

Well why do we even need an election? People I present to you Australia's 27th Prime Minister, Tony Abbott.

Who cares if Kevin Rudd is still the preferred PM by 55% of the polls respondents, or the the fact that Labor still holds a lead on the two party preferred basis.

But the "Authentic Mr Abbott", as the ABC's Four Corners dubbed him this week, has had a remarkable run since taking over the Coalition reins.

And what a great run it's been, I mean he's already offended almost the entire female and indigenous populations. 

His success is reflected less in his own popularity than in the lethal effect he has had on Rudd.

The fact that Rudd is above Abbott in every poll is inconsequential, elections aren't like a big popularity contest.

 Abbott's epithets for Rudd such as "Prime Minister Blah Blah" and "All talk, no action" have had more cut-through than any number of debates about the fine points of economic stimulus or carbon trading.

What, does Tony Abbott get his insults from Ke$ha? Don't worry Australia, Tony Abbott may not understand the finer points of the economy or environment but he can insult with the best of them!!!

"Climate Change, you're a poo head."

And then, in what has been dubbed Rudd's Latham moment, voters saw for themselves last Friday a side of the Prime Minister that belies his "aw shucks" Milky Bar kid persona, and which suddenly gelled with all the stories about temper tantrums, hair dryers and how he made a young female RAAF flight attendant cry when she brought him a disagreeable meal.

When he starts an illegal war, call me.

As Kristina Keneally, a civil and attractive woman still on her training wheels, tried to engage him in polite routine conversation for the benefit of the whirring cameras, Rudd pointedly ignored her.

It's the NSW government, if I was Kevin Rudd, I wouldn't want my fingerprints anywhere near that train wreck.

Treating any woman with such withering contempt would be bad manners but treating a woman as well-liked and unthreatening as Keneally was beyond the pale.

Couldn't Kevin have had the good manners just to swear at her, like real politicians do?

There was more information in the subtle play of body language between the two politicians in the video footage which has been running all week than can be readily explained, but it will haunt him until election day.

Forget about policy, if you want to stay in office don't blow of a puppet Premier who'll will be voted out at the earliest opportunity.

Yet, despite his creditable performance in the short time he has been leader, Abbott, like his mentor Howard, isn't feeling the love of everyone at the top end of his party.

I'm going out on a limb here, but maybe it's because he makes huge policy announcements with out consulting the his cabinet? 

it seems Abbott is on track to win over the people he really needs to have on side if he is to do well at the next election - the middle class mortgage belt, aka "working families".

Of course he is, do you know why? No big, new taxes .