The opposition welcomes Mahathir as their new leader because he is cleverer than them

Umar Mukhtar

For the past week, the new allies of Dr. Mahathir Mohamad have been stumbling over each other to defend their move to embrace their hitherto declared enemy as their new informal leader to go against Prime Minister Najib Razak.

A great man once said that the only legitimate reason to acquire power is to do good.

Now Rafizi Ramli of PKR says that his embrace of Mahathir is to provide the tipping balance of 4% that Mahathir’s followers would provide him. So, irrespective of the fact that Mahathir is synonymous with all that is repugnant about the abuse of power, Rafizi needs him in order for Rafizi to do good. What perverse logic!

Mat Sabu of Amanah condemns all those who attack his new love, Dr. Mahathir, as cowards — because he said that there’s no point in attacking a retired powerless man when it is the one in power and currently running rampant that should be the target.

First, Mat Sabu, can’t you see that Dr.Mahathir is not retired from spreading Mahathirism, and second, power is not one that is vested formally only? Is that too hard for you to understand, Mat Sabu?

Lim Guan Eng of DAP said that trust is not important at the moment. What is important is for the country to move on and we must put aside our personal feelings over the country’s interest.

So, if someone robs you, it is just a personal loss and personal feelings of frustration, and it is more important to partner with that smart thief because it is more important to move on than to have a principle in your life. And trust will come later like you found out years later with PAS?

Khalid Samad of Amanah expertly declared that they need to reach out to places that only Dr. Mahathir can reach, so they need him to complement the opposition’s efforts. So, we should also embrace the ‘toyol’ since the belief is it can penetrate anything that allows air to enter which we can’t do.

Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail of PKR is so proud that the tyrant Dr. Mahathir needs the reformists more than the reformists need him. So that about cancels out all the of the above rhetoric.

He is not actually needed, so implied Wan Azizah. But perhaps it is good to be seen as partners of crooks. And it must be satisfying and is sort of a victorious feeling that an old enemy needs you, Wan Azizah?

One wonders who is coordinating all this rhetorical verbal diarrhoea emanating from this group.

Mahathir himself does not seem bothered by the controversy of his co-opting of the opposition. Oops, sorry, the opposition co-opting him and not the way round, according to Rafizi.

Mahathir himself doesn’t make any effort to deny that he is a shit-head because he understands the Chinese proverb about certain people needing the devil to turn the wheel.

So victory at any cost. It’s nothing less than perverted thinking to rationalise personal greed. It’s like shooting dead your own mother because the Mafia has a 10 million-dollar contract on her head.

Since a Mafia contract is as good as a done deal, at least now you get the 10 million dollars yourself and not somebody else. Thank the Mafia for tipping you off, so that you get to her before anybody else.

It seems to the desperadoes that all those people who condemn this unholy marriage of Pakatan and Mahathir must be supporting Najib. Why this zero-sum conclusion? Really?

I do not tolerate criminal manipulation by anybody at all including that by Najib or by Mahathir. If criminals in high places can insulate themselves from prosecution, then we will remove them by law and overhaul the system.

I have deep suspicions with regard to 1MDB and I will wait for that time when I can act on it by law. So whatever happened to ‘pungutan suara’ in democratic Malaysia? Mahathirism has permeated the opposition too?