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THIS must be the hottest election ever in Pinas, thanks to the “presidentiables”” and “vice presidentiables” whose debates have inspired their fans to also have their own debates on who among the candidates have the best qualities of a good leader.

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The hot weather could be contributing to that hotness, with the hot weather adding more hotness to the hot debates, and the hot debates adding more hotness to the hot campaign sorties, and the hot campaign sorties adding more hotness to the hot elections. All that hotness gathered around one topic, and it has nothing to do with sex. Tsk tsk.

But then, one presidentiable’s quotable quote on rape eons ago is revived for everyone to digest. But is that sex? Hmmm. Too sensitive an issue so let’s not go there.

Wait, let’s go there. Rape is one of those things that may evoke this question: What part of No do you not understand? It doesn’t matter where you are in the foreplay department, once one of the partners says no, that means no. So, please stop.

This must be the first election when I happen to be too neutral, thus, my choices on May 9 will depend on the political color that I’ll learn to live with in the next three or six years. While some Pinoys are rabidly supporting their respective political candidates, here I am in relaxed mode now, with no intention of joining any of those arguments on who should win.

The candidates are mostly politicians or relatives of politicians who have been there, done that. Once they win, Pinas will have to deal again with same-as-above challenges that have been there since forever. Pinoys should always be vigilant to prevent these politicians from stealing from the national treasury otherwise, aguy, not another round of pork barrel scam or whatever scam they’re into now.

Sometimes we’re better off talking about matters that are close to our heart. Politics is close to the hearts of politicians, political candidates, their families, friends, colleagues and supporters. But to the rest of us madlang pehpohl, discussing politics can break relationships and friendships, like as if these political candidates will even remember us once they win. If they lose, the more they will want to forget about everything, including your rabid campaigning and fighting for them. For there’s this possibility: the more rabid the campaign and support, the lesser the votes.

You can’t even use the number of campaign rally participants as a gauge for the potential votes your candidate will get, and that’s most especially true for the hakot crowd like the one that gathered at the back of SM CDO last Wednesday. That must be the first time I had seen a convoy of so many red buses. Wow.

Don’t rely on surveys, too. Why? Hmmm. If you’ve been a Pinoy since birth, you should know by now how these candidates win and what it takes to win. No need for me to tell you why. Wink wink.

Yup, wink wink. Although the two words that have been controlling me lately are oink oink. I’ve been eating like a pig for three weeks now. This started during the Rotary district conference in Cotabato. Or was it in the Rotary Wash conference in Manila? I didn’t bring the protein shake with me, and somehow my fats have become used again to my previous diet. I couldn’t stop eating. But I was bent on going back to the new healthy lifestyle starting yesterday. Hmmm. Wish me luck.

And that’s what political candidates are probably thinking of now, to wish them luck as they march to the May 9 election with their plataporma.

Yes, each of them does have a plataporma and you better listen well. They don’t reach this point in their political careers without having a plan on how they will accomplish their goals once they win. Sometimes they may sound like they don’t care about you, but they do care about the legacy they’ll leave behind, thus, the plataporma.

But I gotta feeling that the candidate who can give the most number of fans will have the largest number of fans on Election Day. That fan helps you cool down amidst this heat, it will protect your head from rare raindrops like the ones last Wednesday, and it can cover your ballot from prying eyes who are making sure you’re voting for the candidate that gave you P1,000. If you received P500 only, hmmm, good luck na lang.

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