The Nuisance candidate strategy works!

UPDATE: I got this post mixed up with this one. Fixed na.

Joselito "juju" Cayetano is earning his pay. From Ellen Tordesillas:

The latest Pulse Asia survey conducted early this month showed that if the May 2007 elections were held today, 17 senatorial candidates would have a statistical chance of winning a seat in the Philippine Senate. Of those in this group, eight belong to the “Genuine Opposition” while another one is a guest candidate of this political coalition, six are running under “Team Unity”, and two are independent candidates.

Pulse Asia explained that for this particular survey, respondents were asked to write down the names of their preferred candidates on a “ballot” and to drop this in a “ballot box” to simulate the act of voting. Additionally, some “spoiled ballots” were counted involving senatorial candidates with namesakes who are also running for the Philippines Senate, namely, Tarlac Representative Aquino (2%) and Taguig-Pateros Representative Cayetano (5%).

Strangely, Joselito Cayetano, the administration’s candidate to destroy Alan Cayetano’s senatorial bid got 7.1 %, higher than Chavit Singson’s 6.5 %. If you add that 7.1 %t and the spoiled 5 % to Alan’s he would shoot up to no. 2.

Also, if the spoiled two percent Aquino votes were credited to Noynoy, he would be in number 5.

This proves that the nuisance candidates can thwart the true will of the people.

But what can you do? The COMELEC is run by crooked and partisan officials. How else to explain Joselito "Juju" Cayetano's spoiler candidacy being accepted by the COMELEC? How can James Jimenez and the the partisan ang Garci-defending ComelecAko look at people straight in the eye and defend the COMELEC's action on allowing Mike Arroyo's nuisance candidate to run?

I guess the only explanations for COMELEC's actions are: they're either stupid or corrupt in a sick Garci way.

Dapat talaga may housecleaning sa loob ng COMELEC after Hello garci, cuz many of the dagdag bawas operators are still there. But it never happened. Hindi naparusahan ang dapat maparusahan. Na-promote pa yung iba. And then there are those who covered up for the guilty operators, the people who stonewalled and protected the corrupt COMELEC officials. In my book, the coverup is worse than the crime. And they should be taken out too.

If they refuse to disqualify the "marine biologist" juju Cayetano, then the opposition should boycott the elections. If the opposition let's the Mike Arroyo and the COMELEC get away with this, ngayon pa lang, tapos na ang boksing sa opposition.

UPDATE: Ah, but people will make excuses, saying that Cayetano deserves this for going up against Mike Arroyo and not presenting enough evidence on the German bank accounts.

But if Cayetano really did screw up, then the admin had the numbers to punish and expel Cayetano. Pero bakit ayaw nila gawin ito? I believe it is because there is some truth to what Cayetano is saying. And also because they don't want to set a precedent. Baka balang araw, sila rin ang ma-expel.

If Cayetano did wrong, then let the people decide his senatorial candidacy in an honest and clean election. But by using dirty tricks and rigging the elections, Mike Arroyo lost whatever moral high ground he may have had with Cayetano... and he never had much moral high ground to begin with.

And the reason why many people were willing to believe Cayetano's accusation was because Mike Arroyo was once caught with his pants down in the Jose Pidal accounts.

But Mike Arroyo got away with it because Joker Arroyo and Sen. Barbers and the other lapdog defenders of arroyo stonewalled for him and shut down Lacson's expose, kahit na sangkatutak na ebidensiya ang ilinabas. The arroyo defensers gave this BS excuse na bawal raw gamitin ang xeroxed or "authenticated" na docus. Original lang raw ang dapat. Well, yung original ay either na kay Pidal o nasa bangko. Siguro hindi nila willingly na ibibigay yon kay lacson.

And then Joker and his gang accepted Iggy "I invoke my right to privacy" Arroyo as the "real" pidal. which only shows na biased at stupid si joker arroyo dati.

And who can forget Mike Defensor's "rescue" of udong mahusay from the kidnapper Ping Lacson? lol.