New Zealand blogger extraordinary, the ever quaint Russell Brown, spent a good part of his Mediawatch (9am Sunday on National Radio) show this morning explaining away the apparently aberrant results of recent political polls with regard to the Don Brash thing.

Unfortunately for poor old Russell, while he had to file his program on Friday, TVNZ waited until Saturday to announce the results of their latest Colmar Brunton poll. A poll that TVNZ had to check twice in order to confirm the quite astounding results. While most seem to be crowing that Brash is behaving like a racist redneck, the facts must surely belie this. If such popularity could be had in such behavior then Winston Peters would have been Prime Minister long ago.

I think that Brash is saying (and importantly thinking) the right things and going about it in a reasonably (for a politician) scrupulous manner. Provided he can keep the rest of his rabble in line his party may do all right come election time. Let's hope any success doesn't come too much at the expense of the other Libertarian and Libertarian leaning parties who have been saying these sorts of things for some time now.