Women power in Pangasinan BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 05/20/2010

Women power in Pangasinan

BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 05/20/2010 If Makati Mayor Jojo Binay, the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino’s vice presidential candidate, is at this point leading the Liberal Party’s Sen. Mar Roxas by a slim 800,000 votes, it probably can be attributed to the color of his skin (a dark, dark brown), his height (short) and his facial features (pangit). As compared to Roxas who is tall, fair-haired and handsome (just ask his wife Korina); and most of all being incredibly wealthy (mother Judy hails from the billionaire Araneta family which virtually owns all of Cubao, QC). In trying to justify Roxas’ playing second fiddle to Binay, his campaign strategists have been insisting that his running mate Sen. Noynoy Aquino had junked him down the homestretch. Binay, they claimed, was really the Aquinos’ vice presidential choice. Because it should be recalled that Binay was a totally devoted supporter of President Cory, and was one of those instrumental in bringing her to power in 1986. As the saying goes: Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t. But playing Monday morning quarterback, what the Roxas camp sorely failed to take into account was the mindset of Filipino voters most of whom are from the masa who naturally and subconsciously side with the underdog. Look at what happened in 1998 when the phenomenon of Sen. Erap Estrada, a local Tinseltown idol, registered a landslide victory over establishment types like Speaker Jose de Venecia, Sen. Raul Roco and Cebu Gov. Lito Osmeña, with the biggest margin ever in the country’s history. In the current vice presidential derby, the underdog role was a perfect fit for the kanto-boy-who-made-good Binay who was one of the pesky street parliamentarians who brought the Marcos regime to its knees in 1986. The way I see it, there was no junking done by the Aquinos. If indeed there was any junking, it was done by the Filipino electorate who saw themselves transfigured in Binay and not the aristocrat Mar Roxas. So guess whom they voted for.... MORE   Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100520com5.html

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