What is more revealing than the uninteresting content on "secret tapes" recorded by an infiltrator at last weekends National Party Conference, is who was it that surreptitiously made the recordings ?
The secrecy of this is the real story. The content is hardly controversial. It is already well known.
It is clear that it was someone from the Labour Party ranks or at an outside chance Winston Peters.
It is a first for New Zealand Politics and a new low in terms of our political landscape.
It appears Labour is going to get even dirtier than they did during the 2005 Election, where at one stage they sent State House tenants pamphlets saying they would all soon be evicted if the National Party won the vote.
Ms Clark is tainted over this Labour leaking of National Party inside info and goes to prove how underhanded and devious she can get.
What next, up-skirt cams in the Women's Beehive loos, video cameras in Lockwood Smith's bedroom (perish the thought).
As John Key has said today, he will not resort to the same sort of gutter politics as Clark and her party have.
Ms Clark must distance herself from this if she want to look a credible candidate for the 2008 elections. It appears that she may have been taking lessons from Winston Peters, this has his DNA all over it.
Like Peters though, she may find her muck raking eventually come back to hit her in the face and Cindy Kiro wont be there to help her out.
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