ROXAS’ BACKERS NAILING NOYNOY’S CANDIDACY?

Financial backers of former 2010 presidential candidate, Sen Manuel Roxas is out to nail Noynoy Aquino with the supposed blessing of an influential civil society group. The holdup on Aquino’s career was helped by few dissatisfied members of the Liberal Party (LP) who thinks that the Aquino clan has been the sole determining force behind Noynoy’s possible entry to Malacañang. Too much on-hand babysitting from Noynoy’s siblings was said to have pushed-back other influential political tycoons that are willing to take his candidacy to another notch.

The decision of Roxas to stand-down from the executive race was not just for the sake of “reform”. It was because LP welcomed the idea of having a far winnable bet to take-out Erap Estrada and Manny Villar. No matter how LP claimed their slate roulette was based, the public would not be too naïve at ignoring the idea that TRAPOs swarming inside the Aquino camp are simply testing the waters to see how long the Cory “magic” will last and as to how far Roxas will ride on the Party’s decision to cast him aside.

But as sources say, the multi-million spenders behind Roxas’ ads wanted more than fiddling a “second best”. They desire to bag the presidency and they will have it one way or another. Even if this means throwing unfavorable tides back against the Aquinos. The groups are determined to divide LP’s resolve on Noynoy’s candidacy. And they are having the “charitable” funding of renowned civil society groups to include the ones under Dinky Soliman.

This is how dirty politics work. Not even purists like members of the civil society are immune to it; particularly those with huge bundle of millions betted on one “presidential” stallion like Roxas. This group claims that Noynoy is too weak of a character that hides behind his sisters’ skirts. By the time he possibly gets elected he would not be pursuing LP’s wishes but of his family’s. That would alienate the TRAPOs who went beyond their ego to rally behind Noynoy. Their sacrifices would not be rewarded in terms they have imagined. So, the next best thing would be Roxas.

Scenarios of backstabbing that could seize Noynoy’s ascendancy to the executive post were long predicted by the masses. The “hero in a day” tale of Noynoy was not made out of people’s confidence. It was mustered out of the sympathies pouring-in for the revered former Pres. Cory Aquino. The fluidity of people’s trust on Noynoy not as the son of Cory but a probable president at his own right is now being goaded by Roxas’ frustrated supporters. They are plotting to exploit Noynoy’s feebleness and use it to boost Roxas back up.

But interestingly, neither Noynoy nor Mar is making a move against such torrent pour of treachery sinking in LP. As detesting it is to admit, this gives us a clearer picture of just what LP presidentiables could offer. One is a president who depends on his family name and the other a president stringed to his “advisors”. The upshot would always involve Filipinos either swimming in instability or else drowning on opportunist TRAPOs.