Hopeless senatoriables

AS I was listing my choices for the coming senatorial and local elections, I felt a sense of hopelessness. There are only two people on my list:

• a very old man who should have retired but felt that no one can fill in his shoes yet; and
• someone who dared not to be proclaimed by presidents he previously asked to resign (nevertheless, if he is not married to a megastar he would not have that "principle."

All the rest were… enough to make me feel that I should start joining the queue to Canada, Australia, New Zealand or wherever. Among "senatoriables" there are turncoats on all sides, people with no principles, no platforms, and no political parties.

• We have bright young lawyers who talk too much but work too little (if they did their homework, they could have impeached GMA)…
• We have returning political veterans who never achieved anything substantial other than spark EDSA Dos by blocking the opening of the second envelope…
• We have children and relatives of heroes… but we all have heroes' blood in all of us…
• We have millionaires who swindled banks, depositors and house buyers to accumulate wealth (sipag at tyaga… at maraming pagbalimbing)…
• We have populists… they do not understand a single word they are harking (ever thought about the consequences of abolishing VAT or not paying our national debt)…
• We have local government officials who came from provinces that are not known for their progress or unparalleled development…
• We have political neophytes with no clear understanding of the legislative process…
• We have glorious men in uniform whose greatness was shot down because of women in their lives (one was asked by his mother to stop a mutiny, the other was caught in his female friend's house)…
• We have action stars who brawl on national TV and it is not part of a movie or a show…
• We have a dumb bar topnotcher who disgraces two universities with his un-common sense

(From INQUIRER podcast interview: OK, since I'm a lawyer, and I know the basic structure of our government. I'm running for senator, that's the legislative branch. The case of Estrada belongs to the judicial branch, and there is a wall of separation between the two branches. Then, well as an aspiring senator I should not comment cases pending before courts. I will let the justices of the Sandiganbayan... objectively and impartially decide the case of president Joseph Estrada. But since, on a personal note, since Erap is my wedding sponsor, ninong ko, I wish him all the best, and my wish is for him to be acquitted.)