Mahathir taking a leaf out of Anwar's book?

MM Online - ‘Well-known BN leaders’ looking to join Pakatan, Dr M claims (extracts):

PETALING JAYA, April 24 — Pakatan Harapan chairman Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today claimed that several Barisan Nasional representatives had approached him to join his coalition.

Without revealing names, Dr Mahathir said these representatives were fed up with BN’s administration and thus wanted to leave for PH. [...]

Separately, Dr Mahathir said PH was confident of a bigger win in the coming election, attributing his prediction to the massive crowds that have been attending his ceramahs.

“If you follow our ceramah, you will know there at least 20,000 people attending our talks.

“And these people are not brought in buses, given food or paid RM100 like the other party,” he said.

Likewise with Anwar Ibrahim campaigning prior to 2008, when massive crowds attended his speeches even when the weather wasn't conducive.

But they came to satiate their curiosity rather than to lend support, because the election outcomes for PKR and allies did not reflect the support of the participating massive crowds. Anwar then was an outback novelty, his rally a festive event-opportunity for family outings and such-likes rather than a show of political support.

Thus, it's still too early to equate crowd attendance with actual votes for Mahathir.

But far more interesting has been Mahathir's claim that several un-named BN representatives (presumably mostly UMNO) had approached him to join his coalition because they were fed up with BN’s administration.

'... several un-named BN representatives ...', wakakaka. 

It's far more interesting because it reminds me of Anwar Ibrahim's gambit in 2008 after the general election which saw BN winning by 140 seats to Pakatan's 82.

Anwar then claimed he had won over 30 of the BN MP's which would have given him the magic figure of 112 MPs in Pakatan, a one-seat majority in parliament but nonetheless a majority, and the right to form the ruling government.

His target date for "taking over" from AAB was 16 September 2008, abbreviated to a Malaysian-ised 916.

He also demanded AAB call for a fresh election to deal with the impasse, wakakaka. But AAB wisely ignored Anwar's poker bluff, him saying (words to the effect) "I know Anwar. If he has the numbers he would have already stormed into my office to take over."

Anwar then blamed a stoic couldn't-be-bothered AAB, who must have laughed silently at the manmanlai bullshit, for "blocking a smooth transition of power from the government to the opposition block", wakakaka again.

T'was reported by Malaysiakini that Anwar who is Pakatan Rakyat’s prime minister-designate said the opposition had exhausted every possible constitutional and conventional way to accomplish a “peaceful and orderly take-over of the federal government”.

Excuse me while I wakakaka again and again.

“We exhausted all peaceful ways to take over. One should ask Abdullah, not me, for his reasons of disallowing us to take over,” the Permatang Pauh member of parliament said during his Hari Raya open house in his hometown of Cerok To’kun, in Bukit Mertajam, Penang today.

Then, to complete the comedy, I've to tell you the involvement of Nathaniel Tan, once the ultimate anwarista, and the mathematically-challenged Hannah Yeoh, wakakaka.

In those days, Nathaniel Tan's faith in Anwar Ibrahim was such that he and Hannah Yeoh actually supported the 916 Deformasi, a classic case of overt shameless frogology (as claimed by Anwar), in actuality a notorious attempt to oppress the supremacy of the ballot box.

That naughty attempt at subversion of the ballot box was masked, packaged and spun away convincingly as a greater good for the rakyat, a sleazy sinister slogan we were to subsequently hear again during the malodorous rancid Kajang Conspiracy, and yet again this round, as the caring Maddy attempt to save Malaysia!

Nat Tan, the once-ultimate anwarista, fearing that his wonderful Great Leader might even be assassinated, had written rather pleadingly:

One controversial option to forestall any such drastic measures by the powers-that-be is for Malaysians to push for a change of government – either by crossovers, or calling for a snap general election, a potential last resort for BN, which is good for democracy, but unlikely to forestall the ruling coalition's demise.

I wonder what he was smoking when he talked like so regarding an election where BN had just won 140 seats to stump Pakatan's 82 kaukau.

"... by crossover", my bloody rambutans, wakakaka. But seemingly he showed no shame in saying such disgraceful democracy-desecrating words.

Mind, he wasn't the only one in PKR to have said that - once I asked a PKR matey why he had even supported frogology? His answer flabbergasted, flummoxed and flattened me, that he and his PKR mates "... couldn't wait any more for a democratic change of government to see Anwar Ibrahim as PM." Ooh la la.

Yes, Nat Tan and sweetie silly Hannah Yeoh couldn't understand why AAB with 140 parliamentary seats won't give way to the Great Leader with 82 seats, or to call for another election immediately after winning 05 March 2008 GE with a near-60 seats majority.

Maybe both didn't do well in mathematics at school though graduating brilliantly from universities, wakakaka.

why is 140 > 82? 

Indeed, Nat Tan was justifying and asking the public to support the insidious political frog-hunting which the World's Greatest Political Reformer had long already successfully demonstrated as his specialty in Sabah in 1994.

Mr Manmanlai had then turned Pairin from being the democratically elected CM into the opposition leader with just a few croaks, yes, that disgraceful deformasi subversion of the ballot box to seize power via the complicit cruddy cesspool.

Nat Tan then apologetically rationalized (perhaps attempting to fool his own conscience and values):

While less than ideal, these remain some of the few ways we can avoid a descent into chaos and desperation within BN, and by extension within Malaysia.

Wow! and ..... WHAT? Was Nat Tan then hinting at a post-election rebellion? And that BN which just won 140 seats was going to descend into chaos and desperation?

[Years later Nat Tan demonstrated his art of fake news when he tried to smear Lim Guan Eng into a limit (his, Nat Tan's own limit) of maximum two terms as CM in his letter to Malaysiakini - I defended Guan Eng (wakakaka - those were the foolish days) in my post and also letter to Malaysiakini titled The harassing, heckling and hounding of Guan Eng)

But we knew then (2008) who had descended into desperation, wakakaka, so much so there was even a PKR frog-hunting expedition all the way to Taiwan, wakakaka.

Aiyoyo, how did he and Hannah Yeoh ever come to support the most defomasi 916 when both are known to be clean earnest young (at that time, 10 years ago) people?

But today I wonder whether we are seeing Mahathir in his warning about BN frogs as a pre-election rather than Anwar's post election gambit a la 916?

Wakakaka, the coincidental near similarity between once-Boss and once-No 2 is strikingly astonishing.

And will the current one also end in an overseas frog-hunting expedition, perhaps this time all the way to the wondrous Malabar Coast?