The Liberal Party (LP) is considering the tandem of Sen. Grace Poe and Interior Secretary Mar Roxas (Grace-Mar) or Poe and Sen. Francis Escudero (Grace-Chiz) to run for President and Vice President, respectively, in next year鈥檚 presidential election.
Roxas would have to give way to Poe, who topped the senatorial election in 2013, because he鈥檚 way down in the popularity surveys.
A political pundit joked that making Roxas run for President is like selling pork to the Muslims.
But will Secretary Roxas humble himself again to become the running mate to neophyte Senator Poe?
Before the 2010 presidential election, Roxas, who was set to run for President, agreed to be the聽 running mate to then Sen. Noynoy Aquino, a do-nothing congressman and senator, but who became a very popular figure at the time because of the recent death of his mother, former President Cory.
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Will Escudero agree to be Poe鈥檚聽 running mate ?
Escudero has become extremely popular among the masses because of his storybook romance and marriage to actress Heart Evangelista.
He is a veteran legislator (congressman and senator) compared to the Joan-come-lately Poe, whose popularity is聽 derived from her father, action star Fernando Poe Jr., himself a presidential candidate in the 2004 election.
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鈥楨xperienced鈥� Jojo (Binay) takes a dig at 鈥榠nexperienced鈥� Grace鈥攈eadline.
Yes, Binay, who was Makati mayor for decades, is very much experienced in governance.
But he is also very experienced in stealing people鈥檚 money, if we are to believe the allegations against him.
Binay鈥檚聽 glib tongue and聽 plain folks鈥� countenance make him a favorite of the 鈥渕asa鈥� (masses)聽 who are mostly political innocents but who鈥攂ecause of their sheer number鈥攅lect our national leaders.
Yet聽 the corruption charges against him, which he does not bother to explain by appearing in the Senate blue ribbon subcommittee investigation, will hound him until election day, May 9, 2016.
Most of the masses聽 may be politically naive, but they will soon realize they鈥檙e being taken for a ride聽 and vote for his opponent.
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The LP thinks and acts like Grace Poe is the people鈥檚 only alternative to the tainted Binay.
The administration party forgets that there is Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte who hasn鈥檛 declared his intention to run for President but who will soon catch up with Binay and Poe in the next surveys.
The only reason Duterte鈥擠igong or Rody to his friends鈥攊s not yet on many of the voters鈥� radar screens is because he keeps on denying he will run.
Here鈥檚 why Duterte could win in the 2016 presidential race: He has a mass base. He is a Cebuano-speaking Visayan, reportedly the largest ethnic group in the country.
Cebuano Visayans are regionalistic; they will vote for someone of their own running for聽 national office.
Most of the people of Mindanao and one-half of the Visayas are Cebuano speakers.
Voters in Metro Manila, the most populous region in the country, and other places in Luzon may go for Duterte because they want a national leader who can solve the high crime rate, never mind how聽 he does it.
The tough-talking Duterte walks his talk. He has cleaned up Davao City of hooligans, making it one of the safest cities in the world.
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Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get back a hundred or thousandfold.
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