HANGALAN 2010: Sino ang magiging kulelat?

Lets face it folks, whoever your candidate for the presidency is, its basically a three cornered fight between Noynoy Aquino, Manny Villar and yes Erap Estrada. If surveys are to be believed, its those three followed by Gibo Teodoro, Eddie Villanueva and Dick Gordon.

Then there are the bottom three: Jamby Madrigal, Nicanor Perlas, and JC Delos Reyes. And with that said, here lies the question: Sino ang magiging kulelat sa kanilang tatlo?

WHO WILL BRING UP THE REAR?

How Jamby managed some million votes to win as a Senator is really still beyond me, although if Lito Lapid managed to win, maybe I should not underestimate for a lack of a better word, the "taste" of our electorate. But I am willing to bet that Jamby wouldnt muster more than a million votes this time. Or can she?

Perlas and Delos Reyes have been appearing in all presidential debates on tv, radio, internet, baranggay hall, health center and beauty parlor, maximimizing their exposure before all their 15 minutes of fame is up. These two no matter how their "message" sounds good and all will be lucky if they can get 10,000 votes between them. Anything over would be a small miracle on its own.

So where are their votes going to come from? Let us not forget that Madrigal comes from the old rich elite who can use their money who can buy votes like the best of them. The two gentlemen on the other hand claim to be supported by organizations, whose memberships although I admit I do not know, probably number from 100-200 at best.

So who will be the Eddie Gil of this year's election? Speaking of Gil, at least he added some color to the elections when he ran, but I don't see any of these from Perlas or JC unless I consider JC's nervous ticks as entertaining. In fairness to Jamby she has provided some entertainment but nothing close to what Gil provided.

So Jamby, Nic, or JC? Who shall be it?

Hangalan 2010: The Countdown (Series 3: Joseph Ejercito Estrada)

Joseph Ejercito Estrada

Party Affiliation: PMP (Partido ng Masang Pilipino)
Current Position: Former President of the Philippines/Actor
DOB: April 19, 1937
Mapua Institute of Technology
Undergraduate
Odds of winning the Presidency: 1-50

Every Filipino knows about him, and naturally everyone can name a reason why NOT to vote for him, but despite that for some masochistic reason, Estrada still possesses that charisma to elicit enough to support to put a scare into the leading candidates for the presidency.

I get Erap. He plays the masa card to the hilt. Uses his thespian skills to charm his way into a crowd after all these years. Can you blame him for exploiting his strengths and hiding his weaknesses?



But I am just hard pressed to believe that those who voted for him when he won the Presidency in a landslide in 1998, would vote for him again after all that he has done in his two plus years in office.

Maybe if I was just a real a-hole and wanted to play a cruel joke on Filipinos I would go Erap, but even with my personality, I just can't do it.

Why can't we have Erap as royalty? Like a King perhaps? or a Sultan? a Datu? He would be perfect for the job. He gets his spending money, gets the prestige of being a King, and the illusion that he is still in government. More importantly, this would satisfy his huge masa following to see him as King.

Whats going for him: As everyone knows, still enjoys massive support from the masses. Charismatic, experienced in government, has huge name recall.

What would hurt him: The disqualification case filed against him, succeeds, effectively prohibiting him from taking office.

Would win if: Villar, Teodoro, Aquino, and Villar take votes from each other, and in fact would just cancel each other out.