MAHATHIR: Vote candidate
not party. -- pic AFP
After years of saying that Malaysian should vote for the party, the doctor from Aloq Staq is now changing his tune and telling us to vote for the candidate instead of the party.
In the past he had always made it a point to remind Malaysians it is the party its leaders that makes things work, the candidate is just one cog in the complex machinery.
Does it mean that now individual representatives can change policies and pass new laws?
This is an awkward move by someone who is usually far more elegant and inspiring, it is an abrupt about turn more closely linked to low-rent names like Ibrahim Ali, or even Anwar Ibrahim, but it seems that even the good doctor is losing his touch.
His recent performance at the Royal Commission of Inquiry to the Lingam tapes show that he is quite willing to scamper behind the sleazy moat of memory lapse, dragging his otherwise pristine white coat in the filth in the process.
Sorry noo...Saya la ni tak berapa nak ingat sangat..
His recent erratic and unpredictable political performance has no doubt raised some questions about the soundness of his sons within Umno. After all the seed never falls far from the tree.
Mokhzani and Mukhriz are making bids for seats this General Election and if one were to judge them by personal performance then they do not deserve to get votes because these sons of a former Prime Minister have not shown any sparks of brilliance in leadership to warrant the honour of the people.
Mokhzani and his Porsche buddies
Mukhriz the a fibre optic/tech baron
They have not shown to be particularly in touch with the public at large to make them caring and sympathetic representatives of any constituents.
If a particular constituent still holds on to a certain longing for Tun Mahathir then they should vote for his sons because then they can be assured of getting regular doses of his rants against the current Administration.
Voting in Mukriz and Mokhzani actually takes us down a path of more political discord without actually improving anything. It perpetuates the bad blood that flows in Tun's veins as he sees his decisions of 20 years overturned by his successor.
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