22.4.2010.
I'm going to lose RM 10 this weekend to Hang Tam because that was the bet made where I picked PKR in Hulu Selangor. Looking at the news media and the internet, I see the Kamal chap making the rounds while the other side is busy defending the credibility (whatever there is in this case) of the UMNO turncoat, Zahid. That's why, if you want to seek public office, don't have too many skeletons in your cabinet. That's the new campaign.
Zahid Hamidi, the other one, is at his old campaign still, trying to make himself a real national figure. Then again, you can't have too many skeletons in your cabinet, too. He made a mess of himself during Mahathir's time, rescued by Najib twice, both times from eventual possible legal prosecution.
More recently, as I said before, he let the cat out of the bag in Perak when trying to stage what he thought was clever in the coup of the 3 Independents, and we all saw the mess there.
Today I spotted something in the NST about him being prosecuted for the alleged crime of assaulting a contractor at a petrol station. The Court rejected his application to dismiss the case. He was billed RM 3,000 as costs, and instructed to put his defence within one month. If convicted, Zahid might yet see the inside of a jail, something he managed to avoid before.
I saw that clip of him during a recent Parliamentary session, shrieking about anti-Zahid elements pitting him against Najib. Well, he has not shied away from that suspicion since he often opens his big mouth about what he'd do to KJ if he had the power. His association with Anwar goes back to the Yayasan Anda days at Jalan Pantai with Ruslan Kassim, another apparently ambitious guy who has made too many miscalculations.
Not everyone can be fooled, when it comes to campaigning, now or before.
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1 comment:
Sometimes we bet on a hope and not a possibility. We'd be jubilant if we win but quite happy to loose since we secretly know that that would happen.
Well, u've already already summed up the odds against Datuk Zaid and yet he mananged to get 23,272 votes which to me is a very significant achievement. If the two independent candidates had gone on and split the votes further, I'm not sure that BN can win. What made them withdraw their nomination?
Many voting papers issued for voting by post were not returned. To me that shows a protest of some kind. If BN with it's all-out efforts to recapture the seat failed, it would have been morally destructive.
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