It seems that everyone has a bad thing or two to say about everyone else. Every time a plausible candidate arises, the whole gang decides to fling mud in his or her direction. Sure, it's considered fair play to wax lyrical about your opponents' flaws, but isn't there some kind of integrity level that we should be adhering to?
One would think not looking at all the mud-slinging, deed-damning brawl going on in MCA.
Throwing factual brickbats is one thing but slinging fact-less stones is another. The first raises you to great political debate. The latter forces you back to playground tactics.
Best case in point – current leader Ong Tee Keat who has led the party into disarray. He has, along with his deputy, achieved the every wish of every opposition party. For the past six months, Tee Keat has managed to break the party into factions, decimate confidence internally and externally, and run MCA into the ground.
Yet the man obviously has some guts. He has emerged from his sinking ship, head shamelessly held high, standing tall and oblivious to the burning wreck that is the MCA looming up behind him.
The crash has had some effect on his sanity, however. Clearly still in shock and delusional, he is offering himself as a candidate for the presidency. He says that he is the best man to lead the party. But where in the world has he led us thus far? Into the ground? Up the wrong tree? Down the ditch?
Then he says that he is running solo because he is too busy to make alliances. Turn the clock back about six months back and you will remember that it was his wanton addiction to making pacts that sparked off this whole debacle.
No offense Datuk Seri, but you are running alone because no one wants to run with you. You've proven to us that you don't have the stamina to run the length of the race without switching directions, partners, team mates and what-not.
When all else has failed, Tee Keat is now whining that he inherited a trouble-riddled MCA in the first place – the main problem being that of one philandering member. Yet, was this not the person he supported until very recently?
He preaches a clean game but his hands are smeared with the sloppy mud balls he is throwing in every direction. He has been using his online cronies to spread baseless stories on the other candidates. Show us proof, Datuk Seri, before you go on and on.
He has really only one saving grace which he pushes into our faces over and over again and that is the Port Klang Free Zone issue. He's made it into a buzz word which he bandies like a cool lightsaber but he's forgotten that while he preaches transparency, he hasn't tabled a budget for the party's headquarters this year.
So where forth is this transparency, Datuk Seri? How much have you spent on the feng shui-enhancing renovations to your office? How much have you spent on employing new personnel? We are not saying that you cannot do this. At a reasonable cost, it is well in your prerogative to do so. But how are we to judge when you do not share with us the numbers? Are you too busy, Datuk Seri, to keep an eye on the accounts?
What the public wants is a good fight. A clean fight. Why bother with the rigmaroles of election if all it brings are more tricks and ploys? So let's heighten the stakes – let's bring some sense of intellectualism into the game. Instead of mudballs, let's sling some real facts and figures
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