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.

"What you see is what you get" in website-building shortcut is wysiwyg. When I was starting out to be a webmaster, I used wysiwig applications to build my sites. I hated them. So I taught myself how to write HTML code.

Wysiwygs are for lazy people or for those who don’t know HTML. In other words, there is no depth in wysiwygs. They may look good and appealing for their ease of use in the beginning. But as you get to use them more and more, you realize you can’t really do much with them.

So when Manny Villar describes himself as wysiwyg, he could be telling the truth. He has no depth. He has no imagination. He doesn’t spark any inspiration. The fact that he appears in Wowowee to promote himself already tells me the kind of mentality he has. (Watch Loren Legarda, because she’ll do the same thing.)

Oh, by the way, when he says he doesn’t hide behind the accomplishments of his parents (or something to that effect), he’s again telling the truth, because we don’t know his parents from squat. In effect, I don’t know him. All I know is that he hasn’t sufficiently answered the charges brought against him before a Senate ethics committee about the C-5 road controversy.

Besides, Manny Villar acts, walks and talks like a trapo.

So, dear reader, would you want someone like that as President, a wysiwyg? Or would you rather stake your vote on one whose parents we know as pillars of democracy with no blemish of corruption whatsoever?

There’s no better epithet by which to call this new "alliance" (or should we call it mutant metamorphosis) between Manny "Wysiswyg" Villar, accused of road anomalies and Loren Legarda, one of his accusers. But this is not new to Legarda.

She was one of those who prosecuted Joseph "Erap" Estrada in his impeachment trial and even openly wept when the controversial envelope was kept sealed by a majority vote in the Senate. Then, when she expressed a desire to run for Vice-president, she courted Estrada’s favor by visiting him in his lavish detention cell several times.

Now she’s the running mate of Villar, whom not too long ago she scathingly attacked during ethics hearing on his involvement in the C-5 road anomaly. She brushes off this inconsistency by comparing it to the tiff Obama had with Hillary Clinton during the primaries. It’s a good comparison because a lot of Americans deemed Clinton a hypocrite.

Legarda oozes with political ambition. Rumors persist to this day that she’ll sleep with anyone to get what she wants (hello, Sen. Angara!). Apparently the phrase, "strange bedfellows," isn’t new to her, politically and otherwise. Perhaps because she’s aware of this, Legarda takes pains to project and even call herself as sincere.

Now she declares that Villar is innocent of the accusations hurled at him. How did she quickly come to this conclusion? Is this a "sincere" evaluation of the facts in hand? Or is this billionaire Manny Villar’s money talking through her?

Guess.

Here’s why we should be wary of him:

1. He came out of nowhere to become the administration’s bet. How did he do it? Three answers: money, money, money. And this is only within his party. Obviously he has the attitude that money can get you anywhere and anything. You want a president like that?

2. He’s a smart lawyer. He’s a bar topnotcher and went to Harvard. This means he’ll know how to get around the law. Look at Mike Arroyo. He isn’t that smart, yet he’s able to get away with alter-ego Jose Pidal. You want another example? Ferdinand Marcos.

3. He’s slick. Too slick, in fact. He dresses smartly and speaks well. He looks like a well-fashioned con-man. I can’t identify with him and I’m sure neither do the millions of other Filipinos. If people can’t identify with their president, perhaps he’s really not for the people.

4. His wife. She’s gorgeous. But she looks too much of a socialite. The last presidential wife who was a socialite wreaked havoc on the Philippine treasury. Guess who she is?

5. He’s spending millions on TV ads. He’s also one of those who’ll claim that these are not campaign but advocacy ads, believing that the majority of Filipinos are stupid and won’t know the difference. He’s like that other con-man, Manny Villar.

6. And last but not the least: He’s the administration bet. Why do you think he looks so confident of winning? Does he know something we don’t know? Perhaps he doesn’t know what we already know, that the administration cheated in the last election and they’ll certainly cheat again. The use of Smartmatic is a smart move. We may be able to watch the polls, but we won’t be able to watch what goes on inside the machines. And if you think that people can’t manipulate computers or machines, you were born yesterday!