Khairy Jamaluddin - the real threat to Pakatan

The Malaysian Insider - Dr M dismisses Khairy’s call to end ‘siege mentality’.

Hardly surprising as KJ is Dr M’s bête noire. Dr M has never nor will ever forgive KJ for what he believes the latter had done to him and sons during AAB’s reign.

But leaving that vendetta aside, why has Dr M rejected the need for Malays to end a ‘siege mentality’, which in reality has proven to be a psychologically crippling state of mind?

As an answer, Dr M directed his usual sarcastic remark at KJ: “Well, maybe some of us feel that we are already successful, so we don’t need to be under ‘siege’.”

The report continued: … the former prime minister said there were still many Malays who found it hard to make a living. Dr Mahathir said last night he believed Malays still had a siege mentality because of their relative poverty.

“Maybe the average Malay feels that he is under siege, so to speak because he does not earn enough.”

But Dr M, apart from some Chinese and many Indians also finding it hard to make a living, that wasn’t the point. KJ didn’t say they don’t have a siege mentality, au contraire, but he wants them to end it.

In the end Dr M, when pressed by reporters commented: “I’m not saying I’m agreeing or disagreeing with what he (Khairy) said. I don’t have to agree or disagree with anything.”

So we may take it that Dr M had dismissed KJ’s call for the sake of rejecting anything KJ says wakakaka … because Dr M himself had at the twilight years of his premiership said something to the same effect.

I believe he had wanted the Malays to throw away the same psychological crutches. The ‘Malaysia Boleh’ and Malaysian campaign of biggest, longest, tallest and various superlatives had been part of his career-long psywar to give Malays confidence in themselves – well, we can say he certainly has one success … KJ, wakakaka.

The thing about KJ is he’s one step ahead of his UMNO competitors or even PKR’s. If you don’t like him, ok, call him cunning, wicked and Machiavellian but this leng chai learns fast and (leaving aside the question of his sincerity) isn't afraid to try to implement his ‘solutions’.

Let’s look at one UMNO delegate to the party's general assembly and his head-in-the-sand argument while debating the presidential address, as reported in Malaysiakini’s 'BN component parties destroyed us'.

Md Rozai Safian from Kedah accused the BN's partners of being the ‘destroyers’ who brought about UMNO’s loss of its 2/3 majority in Parliament.

Mkini stated that “… Although he did not directly imply which component parties contributed to the defeat, it could be taken as a thinly veiled attack against major partners such as MCA and MIC.”

Now, in a blame game, such ostrich-like bull might find favour with the conservative elements but would hardly help UMNO determine why the non-Malays (particularly the Chinese) had rejected MCA and Gerakan, and thus the leadership of BN-UMNO.

And if you can't identify the fault, how can you address it?

Compare that with KJ’s message to the UMNO delegates, as reported in Mkini’s Khairy: It's game time!

"This is my message to the delegates in Umno, it is important to show that the parties within the coalition have close cooperation and are not seen as subordinates to Umno."

"I am saying that they are having problems, but we need to show that people could come back to BN because they like MIC, MCA and Umno.”

"If not they would say MCA and MIC are useless because they cannot stand up to Umno because Umno is too exclusive."

"So now I want to show the inclusiveness so that people would respect BN and that would also help to rebuild MIC, MCA and Gerakan."

As said, leaving the question of his sincerity aside, we can see he's miles ahead of that mentioned cow head from Kedah.

Meanwhile, following the Bagan Pinang disaster for PAS, we hear such ‘earth-shattering’ news from Pak Haji Hadi Awang in Mkini’s PAS mulls turning non-Muslim supporters club into party wing.

Yawwwwwnnnnnnnn … is that the best they can come up with, presumably after they analysed why they had bombed in Bagan Pinang? Have they considered the unmitigated harm done by Hassan Ali?

Maybe PAS is now suffering too from a 'siege mentality' wakakaka!

… which is why, regardless of Dr M's hatred of him, I deem KJ as the Pakatan’s most formidable and dangerous political opponent.