LP: WEAKER BY THE DAY

“Aquino and his Weakness”

The recent Pulse Asia survey that summed-up Senators Noynoy Aquino and Manuel Villar’s ratings at a deadlock is seemingly the needed push to confirm the waning status of the Liberal Party. Apart from the sounding division inside LP’s campaign agenda with regard to Sen. Aquino’s fallible leadership, the public is also starting to condemn the kind of mud fight LP is trying to pull with Nacionalista. The snowballing of one contemptible issue to next between Aquino and Villar actually lowered public’s esteem on them. Stooping down that low has actually nailed Aquino’s presidential ambition to a “thing of the past”.
If Aquino cannot organize LP’s mere campaign committee without the meddling of a few TRAPOs like former Senator Frank Drilon, what kind of administration would he be leading if he ever gets elected? Unifying a political Party and even managing his own people inside LP is becoming a huge hurdle for Aquino at this point of the campaign period. All thanks to Aquino’s ever “dependent” attitude that is getting his people baffled. The LP presidentiable is apparently used to demanding what he desires and it being given to him that he pays little interest on how his people are actually handling his “candidacy”. This is what should concern people about falsified heroes that were made by TRAPOs like Drilon.
Other than the ill-managed campaign committee of Aquino, Noynoy’s insensitive impulse is also becoming a problem inside LP. First, it was his “disdain” against the Social Weather Station (SWS) who narrowed his lead against Nacionalista bet-Sen. Manuel Villar. The “surveys ay nabibili sa Quiapo” statement blew up on Aquino’s face and actually got him in a very awkward position with regard to private survey outfits that had been fueling his supposed “charm” to the people. If I may, the apologetic letter of Aquino directed towards the SWS management was read over deaf ears. Well, could we really blame the SWS management for putting up a snobbish front on the “ungrateful” LP bet? Besides, if LP was really sincere, Noynoy could have done better than writing a letter to SWS two weeks too late. If he was man enough, he would have made the apology on television where he made the disparaging remarks in the first place.
Maybe if LP briefed Aquino on every detail with regard to LP’s campaign antics and how the surveys helped him in ways a presidentiable could only hope to, they would not be currently facing such a dismal position. This is sadly the end of the Aquinos’ charm. Politicking pollutes a good name and LP knows of this mistake by now when they picked a presidentiable “na hininog sa pilit”.