Beazley apologizes for gaffe.

Beazley apologizes for gaffe.

Mr Beazley recently referred to Rove McManus as Karl Rove, White House strategist, when bestowing sympathy at the passing of the television presenter's partner.

"I offer my insincere apologies to Rove McAnus. I wish to assure him I meant to disrespect to himself, or his dearly departed wife, Delta Goodrem."

But, senior Labor bitch-fighters have seized the chance to savage the Labor leader's general abilities to do things. "The leader of the ALP has one job, one imperative task: to say what he is told to say. He must be an orator, a preacher, a verbal hero, but that is all. We have trained and competent staff to deal with policy decisions, speech writing, hair styling, thinking, deodorizing, I mean - the front benchers don't even have to pass solids through any conscious action, it's all done for them. All we ask is that they say what they're supposed to say, on cue, with sufficient forced gesticulation, without fail. And Kimmy has succeeded in failing in that department, and has to go."

Individual and otherwise insignificant errors are the traditional method for Labor to disrobe leaders from their position. Mark Latham was removed for his inability to perform a handshake whilst respected personal space, with the final straw being "his disgraceful inability to remain healthy", Bob Hawke for accidentally not skipping out for a beer one lunch-time (thus losing all respect he had from rank-and-file union members), and Paul Keating for mistakenly confusing Labor for an economic rationalist party.