It took a while before I stopped laughing. It’s the best comic sequence so far this year.

There was airhead Kris Aquino teasing fellow airhead Ruffa Gutierrez about leaving "The Buzz," in particular, and ABS-CBN in general, which prompted Ruffa to walk-out of the show.

Kris claimed she had no intention of hurting Ruffa. I believe her. She simply doesn’t have the finesse nor brains not to be tactless. But get the reaction of Ruffa: she called on the Filipinos not to vote for Noynoy Aquino, the brother of Kris, who’s running for President.

What had Noynoy have to do with their quarrel? Nothing. It’s just that Ruffa and Kris have more in common than they know: the lack of brains.

Enter the mother of all airheads, Annabelle Rama, Ruffa’s mother. She gets into the fray by claiming Kris was the reason for Ruffa’s decision to leave ABS-CBN. Then she too called for the Filipinos not to vote for Noynoy.

Noynoy, meanwhile, is wondering how his name got into the quarrel.

Simple. In a meeting of mindlessness, anything can happen.

How about an encore, girls?

Manny "Wysiwyg" Villar was caught on camera handing money to children in a market. This clearly violates election laws that prohibit the giving of money to others. Villar’s cabal of liars, however, went into action immediately and said that Villar was only being compassionate.

I stated in a previous post that a good number of the Philippine electorate is comprised of idiots, but not all. Villar, however, seems to believe he can fool everyone.

In another news item, Villar and his team (including Loren Legarda who does nothing but pose for the cameras) campaigned inside a military camp by conducting a walk of unity, which again violates election laws. Villar said cockily it wasn’t a campaign and added that he would campaign where there were a lot of people.

Yet he was walking hand-in-hand with his party’s election bets. Sure, they were not shouting, "vote for us," but you do not have to say anything to make a campaign statement. Again Villar trying to hoodwink Filipinos.

Apparently, because Villar got away with the C5 anomaly, he thinks he can get away with anything. Such is the man.

Villar the most trusted presidential candidate?

That’s not what Filipinos are saying. That’s what Villar’s money is saying.

Personally, the man’s personality stinks!

Manny "Wysiwyg" Villar and his lapdogs, such as the totoy-looking Gilbert Remulla, are fawning all over themselves for the latest Pulse Asia survey that showed Villar as the most trusted Presidential candidate.

No wonder why. There are two reasons for this.

One, Villar’s over-spending is now causing a dent in the other candidates’ numbers, especially that of his closest rival, Noynoy Aquino.

The other reason is that a good percentage of the Philippine electorate is comprised of idiots who tend to be bedazzled by Villar’s sleek ads instead of looking deeply into his character.

Villar’s millions has garnered endorsers in the likes of masa-appealing celebrities such as Dolphy, Michael V and Sarah Geronimo, who probably don’t care much about what’s coming out of their mouths than what’s coming into their pockets.

Villar’s ads about helping the poor are helping his candidacy tremendously. He claims that the poor, like he once was, should be given a chance to become President. Yet, the core of his hypocrisy lies in the fact that he’s not running as a poor man, but as a filthy-rich individual who’s already spent more than a billion pesos in his campaign.

We ask again, why is he so desperate to become President?

In one of his ads, he claims that if he wanted to become rich he would have remained in business. Yet, Marcos, GMA and her family have proved that it is more lucrative to be in power. The only people Villar is fooling are fools.

Villar’s campaign is made up of smokescreen, lies and illusion. He’ll be better off as a magician than President of the Republic of the Philippines.

The reason why much hated presidents such as Ferdinand Marcos and GMA are able to stay in power for so long is because of a cabal of liars under their wings. This cabal of liars would perpetuate lies, myths and, if everything else failed, attack those who would criticize its master.

Take the current strategy of GMA, whose cabal of liars are perpetuating the lie that GMA did much better governance than her predecessors. And then there’s the brazen lie that GMA can appoint the next Supreme Court Chief even when constitutionalists say otherwise.

Now we have Manny Villar who apparently has his own cabal of liars. This cabal not only is perpetuating the lie that Villar is innocent of the C5 controversy, they attack and they run circles around the truth.

If Villar can use his cabal of liars now, he’ll use them even more if he’s elected President. If Villar was able to use his powers as congressman and now senator to make shady deals that benefited himself and his company, how much more if he sits in Malacañang Palace?

Apparently Villar’s shady dealings are not confined in Luzon. He also has questionable dealings in Ilo-ilo (read this). So what is he going to do amid this latest charge? I’m betting he’ll do 2 things: 1) ignore it and hope it goes away; 2) send in his cabal of liars – born-again Christian Alan Peter Cayetano to twist the truth around (I wonder if reads his Bible); Nene Pimentel to insult the accusers; and Joker Arroyo to make it seem Villar is the righteous one.

Do you really want Manny Villar –with his cabal of liars– as the next President of our already benighted Republic of the Philippines?

Here’s a snippet from today’s column by Amando Doronilla in the Daily Inquirer, writing about Manny Villar:

His defiance gives a preview of an attitude that Villar is above censure and accountability for his actions connected to his companies’ activities to push the C-5 project.

The project is covered by appropriations in which he intervened during its budgetary hearings as member of Congress.

There’s no way that he will step down or suspend his campaign for the presidency while a boycott of his allies is preventing the Senate from voting to censure him.

He remains untouchable in this regard. In stonewalling on the committee report, Villar is a law unto himself and above the rules of the Senate on disciplinary action for breach of the rules.

There are no party sanctions to bar him from election activity until he is cleared by the Senate, simply because he is president of the Nacionalista Party.

If Manny "Wysiwyg" Villar believes he is above the law in his current position, how do you think he’ll treat the presidency if he’s elected?

He presents himself as the underdog by claiming he’s not a haciendero or he doesn’t have famous parents and that he was born poor. He claims, "what you see is what you get." Yet, this is not entirely true. What we don’t see is a sinister personality who used his position to benefit from a road construction and uses lapdogs, the media and reasons and excuses to evade sanction.

Don’t believe in his sleek ads. All they show is a person who’s spending obscene amounts of money, desperate to become President of the Philippines.

We wonder why. To alleviate our country from poverty? If you believe in that, you probably also believe the moon is made of cheese.