Leadership dilemma of Pakatan Rakyat
Is Pakatan Rakyat so bereft of suitable leaders to lead the coalition that it must rely solely on Anwar Ibrahim?
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Even to many of his ‘supporters’, Anwar Ibrahim is acknowledged to be (grudgingly) NOT the correct person to become PM in the event Pakatan wins majority rule, yet they persist, rationalizing (in Malaysia-Today’s publishing of my post The elephant in ABU) with so-called Chinese saying such as
‘… ride a donkey while you seek a horse’, … [meaning] … that if you do not have a horse (the ideal choice) but only a donkey and a pig to choose from then you should make use of the donkey. And they say RIDE that donkey while you seek that ideal horse, not let that donkey ride you …’
Ironically, the last phrase is so true and wise, namely, I and many others have no wish to let the donkey ride us wakakaka.
Amd our reason is best explained by another visitor to M2D wrote what many of us believe:
The trouble with riding a donkey while seeking for the horse in this instance … is that we KNOW that the donkey we are sitting on is the same as the current devil donkey we want so desperately to get rid of !
The donkey we thought we could make use of will NOT allow you to discard him once he reaches the throne … he will put in place all the screws tighening such that you will be shouting helplessly, like how you are shouting in vain NOW under the current goon.
This donkey will turn into a tiger to eat you up.
So we don’t want Anwar Ibrahim, the elephant who is a donkey who is a tiger – basically a chimera.
But if you ask those anwaristas for a substitute to Anwar Ibrahim (assuming hypothetically he is imprisoned followung successful appeal by the AG), guess who they will pick?
Yes, you guess it, either Wan Azizah or Nurul Izzah (or if another of Anwar’s daughters were to participate in politics, then her!). Because in their view, ultimately the leader must be Anwar or at least a clone (family member) of Anwar, so go ahead and convince me if that mentality does not reek of cultism.
Let’s forget about Wan Azizah because in truth she has been an unwilling politician, only getting involved directly because she had wanted her husband freed from incarceration (in the Sodomy I era). Now that that’s done with, she is quite happy to fade off into the background. But she has been compelled into becoming President of PKR because Anwar Ibrahim is avoiding the direct responsibility of the job (though clinging on to de facto power), and because Azmin Ali may not yet be publicly acceptable as the PKR No 1, though may be assumed to be the de facto head. Besides, Wan Azizah showed she was incapable of good firm and fair leadership in the last PKR party polls.
That leaves us with Nurul Izzah.
Please tell me, other than she is Anwar’s daughter and thus the so-named Princess Reformasi, what qualities or outstanding achievement of hers have qualified her (as the propsoed alternative to her father Anwar Ibrahim) to be federal Opposition Leader and Pakatan’s PM-in-waiting?
Still thinking of a reason? Wakakaka. Again, isn’t it pure cultism, or what I term Kim Jong-Nurul, where I wrote:
Many have been the times I read/heard of the preposterous proposals for Nurul to be nominated as the PM of a Pakatan-ruled Malaysia, in the event of the non availability of her father. Those proposals have been so unrealistically moronic, leaving me flabbergasted by the puerile mentality of those blind-as-bats idol-worshippers. Then I could only think of poor hard working, politically far superior Fuziah Salleh, who only lacks the (questionable) pedigree to be considered!
So I ask again the opening sentence-query of this post: Is Pakatan Rakyat so bereft of suitable leaders to lead the coalition that it must rely solely on Anwar Ibrahim?
