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.

Some of the more sleek TV ads we see presently are those of presidential aspirant Gilberto "Gibo" Teodoro. They’re well done and captivating. They present Gibo as a youthful, intelligent and idealistic man who will take the Philippines into new heights.

But is he really? In a previous post I expressed wariness over Gibo (you can read that here). After the Ampatuan massacre, my wariness turned to outright distrust.

Instead of me writing about why I now distrust Gibo, here’s a column written by Patricia Evangelista of the Inquirer that best reflects my sentiments.

Read it here: http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20100206-251687/The-guns-of-Gibo.

A reader in a comment asked, "are you another emotional voter and self righteous person as everybody who’s alligning themselve (sic) to Noynoy?" (you can read that here).

In truth, we haven’t decided yet who to vote for. But we know absolutely who not to vote for and here we ARE emotional about it. We’re not voting for Manny "WYSIWYG" Villar. In fact, we’ll even do our utmost to campaign against him. Here’s why:

1) He doesn’t want to face the senate. His one-hour show last Tuesday was not to defend himself. It was to get media mileage. If he wanted to defend himself, he would have stayed to answer questions from fellow senators.

2) He hides from his accusers and instead lets his allies and party-mates defend him.

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Look at his allies and party-mates:
Alan Peter Cayetano – His skill is to run circles around the accusations and then run circles around the circles, so the result is truth that isn’t even addressing the truth. A born-again Christian, he knows the truth but doesn’t let the truth set himself free. He’s bound by the lies of Villar.

Aquilino "Nene" Pimentel – once a freedom fighter, he’s now relegated to an old man defending a coward by name-calling (he called Sen. Jamby Madrigal an abused child) and using gutter language by insulting Sen. Mar Roxas and his wife.

Joker Arroyo – another freedom fighter and once known as a maverick who once castigated Villar for almost the same anomaly he now defends him with.
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3) He wastes taxpayers’ money by advocating the boycott of his senate lapdogs so that the senate can not have a quorum and thus cannot accomplish legislative work. You should hear how Cayetano twists the truth in explaining the boycotts. It’s pathetic.

4. He says he’ll alleviate poverty but he’s spending obscene amounts of money in TV ads alone (over 600 million pesos in 2009). If he really wants to help the poor, imagine what that amount could do if spent directly for them.

5. He took advantage of the victims of typhoon Ondoy by flying around in a helicopter with Willie "Mr. Sleaze" Revillame and telling all and sundry how he was helping the victims.

Does that reveal a principled leader? Will he turn a crisis into a cat and mouse game as he did with the senate? Will he hide when pressure bears upon him? Will he politicize situations that have legal bearing?

He accused his accusers of politicking even if the C5 controversy was a legal issue. In branding the C5 controversy as politicking, isn’t he doing the same thing?

There’s something fishy about Money Villar (that’s not a typo). Are we going to take a major risk by electing him?

The man should not become President of the Philippines!