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John Howard won a fourth term based on a demeaning and deceptive campaign, former Liberal Party president John Valder said.

Mr Valder, who backed the campaign of former intelligence analyst and Greens candidate Andrew Wilkie in Mr Howard’s Sydney seat of Bennelong, said he wanted the return of a Liberal government but without Mr Howard.

“John Howard has been so deceptive, he’s won a great victory in this campaign,” Mr Valder told ABC Television.

“But I certainly don’t admire the methods by which he achieved it, which is a lowering and lowering of standards to the point where he demeaned himself by using the lowest form of marketing, telemarketing.

I’m up bright and early tomorrow morning to work as a polling officer at the Federal elections. It’s tedious, tiring work, and a long day, but I like it and the pay’s nothing to be sneezed at. I have to be realistic and predict a Coalition retain, with a resurgence of Greens Party popularity and the subsequent Labor preferences to make it a close one and cause a few marginal seats to switch hands, but a Howard reinstallment nonetheless. But hey, you never know until it happens.

In 48 hours the election will be all over. Oh god, Howard’s gunna win, I just know it. I can’t stand it. He needs to go. He doesn’t deserve it. He’s a liar. He’s a fear-mongerer. He doesn’t care. It’s all about the history books. People are too fucking dumb to see through his bullshit. I’ve never been so emotional about removing a government. Please, please get rid of him. I can’t bear it.