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by: Cocoy

That has always been the question isn’t it? What makes Manny Villar different from Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo?

Manny Villar doesn't believe in written platforms.

Manny Villar has been spending his own money.(?)

Manny Villar's billions is also being question, did he perjure himself or is he doing money laundering?

Both Arroyo and Villar share popularist tendencies, in spite of knowing better like price ceilings, which to be blunt has not helpd.

Both have party mates who share their beliefs. Just ask Gilber Remulla, who time and again rises to Villar's defence.

In the grand scale of things, in spite of knowing better, Manny Villar and Gloria Arroyo are both religious conservatives. Their policies, as spoken or written about them, point to the deep religious conservatism that Villar and Arroyo demonstrated.

Both have and are still creating a world where Wowowee needs to exist.

Both Villar and Arroyo talk a good game, but in spite of knowing what to do to fix things, they wont.

What's clear though, in spite of all the Nacionalista Party can say, a Villar Presidency is more in favor of Arroyo. Villar's way of doing things is to "negotiate partnerships." Just look at what he's done with Satur Ocampo and the left. Just look at what he's done for Bongbong Marcos.

It isn't beyond the realm of possibility that in the event of a Villar Presidency, and Arroyo's stint in Congress that the two can cozy up. That the two can come into an understanding. Arroyo could dangle her power--- it doesn't take a speakership to be in power in Congress. All it takes if for Arroyo to have the requisite impeachement votes. Quite obviously the more power she holds, the more dangerous she becomes.

Gordon will do the same as Villar, should he win.

And what would Erap do? If president again, would he go to war, to payback Arroyo or would he hold back, aware of Arroyo's numbers?

A Gibo Presidency will of course be the most ideal.

Let us not forget too that Charter Change is on the auction block. While it isn't important to accomplish the necessary changes, under a Villar, Gibo, or Gordon presidency with Arroyo flying co-pilot, it isn't beyond the realm of possibility that Charter Change will be dangled as a negotiating piece.

In the end, the assessment that this is about Gloria Arroyo holds true. Aquino is the only true opposition, especially post election day. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will make it hard on an Aquino presidency.
It is difficult to wrap one's mind in VillArroyo. It seems like a fantasy to many.

Yes, there is a war brewing and the lines have been drawn. Friends are pitted against friends. To be embroiled in the fray is something else entirely.

What the Philippines needs, first is to fix its broken down institutions, which means it must first solve the question of corruption. Villar will not do that.

Set aside, for the sake of argument all the "conspiracy theories"; Villar's modus operandi and Arroyo's are similar. Their actions and policies are alike too. They build coalitions very easily, and are not afraid to reward supporters. Ergo, if Villar wins, it will be another six years of the same tired, and tested ways that has led the Philippines into a baren land. It is the same cynical politics that Filipinos have been subjected to.

That is why it is Villarroyo who is the Phantom Menace and must be stopped.

In the end, the Yellows must come together, in the words of Abraham Lincoln:

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

With reverence, with gratitude, without fear, and without anger that must be how we go forth to war.

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