Samy Vellu says he's a winnable candidate -- Yeah, all psychiatric patients say there's nothing wrong wit' 'em!

I had a good laugh -- and a larger guffaw of pity for MIC Prez G. Palanivel, a former colleague at Bernama! -- when I read the following:

Friday, 05 April 2013 09:53

Here comes BN's winnable candidate - MR MIC Samy Vellu

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Former long-serving MIC president S. Samy Vellu has given a strong signal that he will make a comeback in the coming polls, prompting Perak PAS to question whether Perak Menteri Besar Zambry Abdul Kadir already approved the former Works minister as candidate.

Samy was defeated in his long-held parliamentary seat of Sungai Siput in 2008 by the Socialist Party's Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj, garnering 16,458 votes against Samy's 14,637, effectively ending the latter's political career.

Perak PAS’s issues and strategic bureau Salman Saleh also asked whether the MIC president G. Palanivel has endorsed Samy.

“Has G. Palanivel, the present MIC president and also the chairman of Perak MIC, agreed to give his former president a seat to contest?” asked Salman.

Samy recently boasted that he was "winnable candidate" for BN.

“There is no doubt (that I’m a winnable candidate),” he said.

Salman said it was possible that Samy had not consulted Perak BN before declaring his intention to contest in the polls.

“If Samy is not contesting, that shows BN does not need him and does not acknowledge his role in developing the Indian community. It would now seem that Perak BN is in turmoil and will continue to do so as nomination day nears,” he added.

-Harakahdaily

DESIDERATA: Desi has considered the past one-and-half-years an unofficial season of madness. Now the loonies are coming/ kambing? out of the woodwork. I watch a lot of LAW&ORDER and CSI episodes, and some featured psychiatric patients caught in a web of violence or crime not compleatly of their doing or control. The next two months we will also witness many politicians past their prime who think they are not loony enough to be cloistered up for their own bad, or for the Malaysian society's gOod. Hey, I am not trained in psychology -- all of those previous GE candidates who contested as Independents had lost their deposits. On nomination day, they would have told their family doctor: I am not loony, it's just a Voice in my head told me to go out there/dare and fight. I'm a winnable candidate, even if MIC, MCA or UMNO don't want me. "See, my father gave me RM100,000 for my outings -- why pay the idiot loctor for me lying on a sofa tokkingkok unilaterally for an hour and paying him RM10K? I might as well spend it on eating Rambutans from Tanjung!"