2 MILLION VOTE-BAIT WORKED FOR SATUR

Is NP Running a Reds’ Flag?

Makabayang Koalisyon ng Mamamayan or MAKABAYAN that pushes for the senatorial ambitions of militant solons like Rep. Satur Ocampo and Teddy Casiño, both under Bayan Muna (BM) had once discussed the agenda of luring winnable presidentiables to actually adopt one of their owns in exchange for their guaranteed 2 million votes. Sadly, the said votes will be forcefully squeezed out from a majority of BM members and its affiliate groups. By hook or crook, Ocampo is going to seat himself in the senatorial floor; even if this means swallowing his pride and prostituting his comrades’ rights.

Others say Nacionalista Party or NP is taking its toll on embracing the Reds for the sake of getting the right amount of votes for Sen. Manuel Villar’s presidency. The unlikelihood of seeing the Ocampo-Villar tandem is more or less buttered by the haunting sting of the C5 graft debacle. Inevitably, the two is out to save each others’ reputations to get a good grip on the 2010 election “hot seats”. Ironically, this had been a doing of a media condoned “electioneering” that help turn “reformists” into TRAPO lapdogs.

NP biting a huge chunk out of MAKABAYAN’s bait is exactly what Ocampo needs to garner an adoptive political Party that could babysit his premature senatorial debut. The Communist idealist (Ocampo) is reliving his iron-hand rule in BM with his worn-out excuse of “for people’s progress”. In fact, BM is stirred with factionalized qualms over submitting to Ocampo’s plan of using them as leverage to get TRAPO’s recommendations or else oppose Ocampo’s bid altogether and have the “opportunist” Ocampo face possible expulsion from the group on grounds of abusive or manipulative authority. If this runs true, BM would be forced to face its members’ resistance including a fuming public.

Ocampo sure knows how to gamble his way on top despite the detrimental consequences that would be banging his militant facade. His unsound judgment on the advancement of his political career is seemingly the deathblow that would drown out his chances of ever receiving the people’s favor. Like the lapdogs he claimed to have fought against, Ocampo himself is lurking behind the mask of “political gimmicks” that shape detestable TRAPOs. He is but another camouflaging wolf that runs among the meek sheep, and as he reveals his fangs and claws buttfired presidentiables like Villar is likewise bared.

NP with the billionaire-Villar is undoubtedly well-equipped with just the right campaign machinery for 2010. However, with the declining public favor on Villar a guaranteed 2 million vote would nonetheless be a tempting offer that NP would be pretty insane to refuse. Besides, if militants like Ocampo change their views and decide to jump ship, TRAPOs like Villar would no less get the better end of the collusion. Militants showing leniency over a suspected grafter like Villar would ofcourse weaken the qualms surrounding the NP candidate. This way NP could sponge down Villar’s name and hide behind Ocampo’s BM.

But to whatever extent this awkward political maneuvering between Ocampo and Villar foretells, it is most certain that 2010 would be filled with political Parties desperate enough to rely on Communist honchos to stay in power.