Like Schumacher, like Ka Ting

Looks like its a rebuke to Sinchew's article( Back in the race again )who liken Ka Ting's return to M. Schumacher

Shah A Dadameah
Friday, 19 March 2010 09:27

IN THE latest twist of events in the run up to the MCA polls, president aspirant Dr Chua Soi Lek challenged fellow contender Ong Ka Ting to refute that he (Ka Ting) is behind an SMS that linked him to the Umno leadership.

The SMS had purportedly claimed that Ka Ting has the blessings of Umno chief and Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to join the contest.

It is uncanny, observed Chua, that the SMSes surfaced just after Ka Ting declared he would go for the No 1 in the MCA polls.

Ka Ting, of course, denies he is in the fight because Najib had asked him to.

However, many are apt to believe that the SMSes had indeed implied that he is an Umno lackey.
Who else is an UMNO lacky ?
Clue : has a Tan Sri , a former MCA deputy president , from Pahang ( CKC's and Liow's master puppeter ) and known to be very close to PM Najib and UMNO . The one who asked OKT to recontest . Sms originated from this source ?

To other observers, however, such actions also insinuate that some MCA campaigners are already bankrupt of ideas and strategies to shore up support for their favoured candidate.

Najib and his deputy, Muhyiddin Yassin, had publicly said they will not interfere in the selection of MCA leaders but they would give their support to the choice made by the delegates.

Perhaps, this has been construed as 'giving blessing' to Ka Ting, when the former party president decided to enter the race to re-claim his former post.

Arguably, the entry of Ka Ting into the fray and his attempt to make history by becoming the first ex-party boss to fight back for the top post has made the MCA presidency the most heated political contest in recent years.

But what is new, anyway?

Leaders step down and others take over - all the time.

Just a good 'administrator'

Not all of them go away, however. They continue to stay, albeit in the guise of advisors, observers and trouble-shooters. Often, they turned out to be trouble makers.

During his term, from 2003 to 2008, Ka Ting was considered a good 'administrator' as he and deputy Chan Kong Choy had been able to keep the house in order following a tumultuous period of Team A and Team B factional quarrels.

But many wrote him off as a good 'leader' after he snubbed a Cabinet post and then refused to continue helming the party in the aftermath of the MCA's dismal showing in the 2008 general elections.















His attempt to do a Michael Schumacher now may not impress most of the current crowd who will be casting their votes in the premature polls on March 28. (The actual triennial election is only due next year.)

Shuey, as the media likes to call the racing ace, is raring to get back his pivotal place in the F1 circuit.

A news portal observed that the champion that came after him, young British black driver Lewis Hamilton, was good only for the go karts during Schuey's prime.

But retirement did not seem quite right for Schuey, 41, and his fans encouraged him to return to the tracks again to show the younger ones a thing or two about what F1 is all about.

Perhaps, like Schuey, Ka Ting was inspired by the 'numerous calls' from his supporters to return to active participation in MCA politics after being just an observer for the past 18 months or so.

In Shuey's first outing at the Bahrain tracks last week, the former world champion failed to make it to the podium, coming in only sixth.

In Ka Ting's race, he will be facing two heavyweight contenders - incumbent Ong Tee Keat and Chua, formerly a tainted vice-president who came back with a vengeance to claim the higher deputy president's post in October 2008.

Will Ka Ting too make it back to the podium? haha

rest of article here .