Bernardi attacks Turnbull for attacking Bolt for attacking Turnbull for attacking Abbott

More today on leadership speculation. From Fairfax:

Senator Cory Bernardi has come to the defence of columnist Andrew Bolt, calling him ‘a very principled man’.

On the ABC’s Q&A program on Monday night Senator Bernardi, an outspoken conservative who moved to the backbench in 2012 after linking acceptance of same-sex marriage with acceptance of bestiality, said everyone was entitled to their opinion but “I thought that Malcolm’s response was too strident”.

“I thought it was inappropriate, it was unwise to do, and I think it’s just kicked the whole thing along,” he said.

I would have thought Malcolm’s denial helped out Tony, no?

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.