Campaign turns dirty as NP calls LP ‘Topak’ By Angie M. Rosales 04/06/2010

Campaign turns dirty as NP calls LP ‘Topak’

By Angie M. Rosales 04/06/2010 The mudslinging between the presidential bets of the Nacionalista Party (NP) and the Liberal Party (LP) camps turned vicious yesterday with the NP branding the LP as “Topak,” a contraction for “Trapos” or traditional politicians, “Opportunists And Kamag-Anak Inc.” and the camp of LP bet Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III of practicing necropolitics for digging into the supposed incon-sistencies in NP standard Manuel Villar Jr.’s claim of the death of his brother being the result of the Villar family’s poverty. NP senatorial candidates said the tirades on the death of the senator’s late brother was already too personal and below-the-belt. NP secretary-general Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano also branded the LP as Topak, which is gutter language for insane in Tagalog.  “It is time to reveal who are the brains behind the smear campaign (against Villar). They are no other than the ‘Topak’ who served as core group of President Arroyo and who now form the core group of LP and of (Sen. Benigno) ‘Noynoy’ Aquino’s campaign team. These are the same people who launched the smearc ampaign against (the late movie icon) Fernando Poe Jr., the same people who orchestrated the proclamation of Mrs. Arroyo in 2004, the same people who tried to save her from the ‘hello, Garci’ scandal and the same people who left her when they tried to grab power for themselves and failed,” he said.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100406hed6.html

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