Between Bad Moon Rising and Happy Days
By Sun Line
Pakatan Rakyat groupies have been wearing black since Saturday, and it’s not because of 1BlackMalaysia.
They are doing so because they are in mourning as the stark reality bites and they finally realise that the PR has never been a government-in-waiting but was a mere substitute in a political footy game where the Umno-captained team leads 12-0 at half time.
Things can only get worse as Pas president Hadi Awang digs further into his little hole to hide from political knives that are being sharpen as his buddies begin to wonder if it’s him, and not PKR, that’s Pakatan’s weakest link and the root cause of some of PR’s major toothaches.
The psychological lessons of Bagan Pinang may, or may not, have altered Malaysians’ desire for federal level changes but they have certainly re-focused their need to demand accountability not only from BN but PR.
In the long term, Pakatan can not afford to allow its supporters to live with the thought that it has peaked at GE12 and go into GE13 riding on the losing end of a string of by-election successes.
In the short to medium term I can envisage Anwar Ibrahim using his political mastery to engineer a psychologically positive path for voters leading into the next round.
This may include plotting absolutely positively winnable by-elections to put key, yet-unelected, former BN icons into the limelight and representative positions to lead the charge into GE13.
If this was to happen, it’ll happen sooner rather than later as the clock ticks to the cut-off point in this term where a by-election is not a legal necessity in the event a seat falls vacant.
Be that as it may, we can expect counter punches from Pakatan faster than Rosmah can get her beehive style hairdo re-permed on a bad hair day.
Pakatan needs to let the public have a good feeling about it as the voters now feel jilted by politicians who courted them with promises of care but went astray during its never ending honeymoon.
Pakatan can jolly well start by sacking those troublesome reps to kick off its spring clean.
We need not sing Bagan Pinang to the tune of “Bad Moon Rising”.
It can be “Happy Days”.
It’s Pakatan’s call.
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