Is Mike Defensor defecting? Palace doesn't know
MANILA - Malacañang on Wednesday fended off rumors of the possible defection by known administration ally Mike Defensor, saying that the former presidential management staff chief has yet to reveal his political plans.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita was surprised when asked if Defensor would indeed be supporting the presidential bid of Liberal Party bet Sen. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III.
"I don't know," Ermita told reporters.
The executive secretary said he has yet to meet with Defensor recently to discuss his political plans.
A Manila Times report earlier quoted Defensor as saying that the Liberal Party should support Aquino and his running mate, Sen. Manuel Roxas, if the entire party endorses their candidacies. "My point is that even with Mar and Noynoy it should never happen that the party become the major stumbling block for their candidacy. Meaning if Noynoy offers himself to the people the Liberal Party must be behind him. The same case with Mar," he said in a Manila Times roundtable.
In the same report, Defensor said warring factions within the Liberal Party are set to unite and that party members have agreed in principle to back Aquino in his presidential bid. Defensor and Environment Secretary Lito Atienza started the schism in the party after they refused to withdraw support for President Arroyo at the height of the 2005 "Hello, Garci" scandal.
Ermita, meanwhile, doused rumors that Atienza would back the presidential bid of former president Joseph Estrada. He said Atienza told him personally that he would remain loyal to the Arroyo administration.
Ermita said he remained confident that Cabinet members would support Lakas-Kampi CMD presidential bet Gilbert Teodoro in the 2010 elections. He said Lakas-Kampi CMD is wooing a "well-known personality" to be Teodoro's runningmate. With reports from Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
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Walang panindigan
Stingray ,Bago tayo mag husga sa isang kandidato, tingnan muna natin ang personal na capacidad ng tao, at wag iparihas ang isang tao sa isang tao rin.Tingnan mo si Escudero, saan galing politiko yan di ba kay Marcos , alam muna naman cguro kong ano ang maga tao ni Marcos noon mga kurakot! di ba? Kong sila Ninoy at Cory ay isang matuturing natin mga bayani, bayani rin si Nonoy? yan ba ang ibig mong sabihin.Iban ang takbo ng isip ni GIBO TEodoro ,MAY SINASABI ANG PAMILYANG YAN HINDI KATULAD SA ATIN NA MAHIHIRAP, at tingnan mo ang track record niya walang-wala at malayo sila Escudero at Aquino.
Wag mong pairalin ang simpatiya mo sa nakaraan isipin mo ang darating na bukas ng ating bansa, na ang dapat mamuna ang may sariling
kakayahan,at sariling intensyon tumakbo, si Nonoy itinulak lang yan tumakbo para naman mangurakot ang mga nasa paligid niya.
Turncoats and Mike Defensor
I dont believe that accepting turncoats is good news. I hope not. Remember when Cory was elected President? All the turncoats coming from the Marcos camp formed their own party and guess what? the party's over. The same crooks, different name. Defectors in war will not serve as generals. They stay in the sidelines, isnt it? Forgiveness is good but justice and prudence is different.
Let Defensor make amends. let him go to the flood victims and tell them that he is sorry for all the illegal logging he had permitted as DENR secretary. That is the way of prisoners of war and I can call that prudent and justifiable.
"Trapo kadiri" Mike. Thats your own slogan.
Who wants to ride on a sinking boat?
Of course Mike is defecting to the Noynoy Aquino camp!!! He already has the premonition that the presidentiable his boss wants him to swallow, STINKS. Masyadong plastic at walang modo itong si teodoro. Kung itong tao na to ang manalo, di parang si gloria pa rin ang presidente natin. teodoro, wag mo na ipilit ang sarili mo sa mga tao. Tandaan mo to, kulilat ka noon, ngayon at sa darating na eleksyon. Dalawa lang ang pagpipili-an ng mga tao, si Sen. Aquino at Sen. Escudero. Itong dalawa lang ang matino, walang record ng corruption, walang boss na napaka-corrupt at and importante sa lahat, di madiktahan ng iba. Sila ang mga taong may paninindigan. Kaya yong ibang kandidato, itulong na lang sa mga biktima ng bagyo ang pera 'nyo at wag nang sayangin sa pagbili ng mga boto. Siguradong ibulsa lang yan. Nangangamoy na kayo!!!