The Daunting Noynoy Aquino-Mar Roxas Tandem

Even Malacañang seems especially daunted with the now official Noynoy Aquino-Mar Roxas tandem for next year’s presidential elections, now that Senator Roxas has officially accepted the vice-presidential candidacy slot for the Liberal Party, presumably through the personal invitation of Noynoy himself.

Actually the team not merely daunting, what with the recent survey results out, the duo could be quite formidable—- not merely a winning team but one that could be unbeatable.

In the days of old, we used to say about up and coming politicians to be “so young and yet so corrupt”, but these two young candidates are “so young and yet so capable”.

If the two can hold their cards well, not bungling their chances just for several months from now, then they’d surely find themselves sitting in the palace by the river next year.

Well of course, none of this election thing should be considered a done deal and deemed final not unless, as they say, the fat lady sings. We still have to have an election on May of next year for one.

Despite the roaring entrance of Noynoy Aquino into the election fray, other candidacies remain to be on the radar, waiting for the banana skin that could lay to naught the Aquino-Roxas team.

For one, the administration bet in Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro becomes now a wise selection as his qualifications and intellectual capacity comes now to the forefront, his exceptional academic achievements slowly seeping into the public consciousness.

Also, Senator Many Villar – the erstwhile topnotcher in polls and surveys before Noynoy came into the scene—- is still looming large out there, still looking for that lucky break (or lucky combination) and desperately aiming to escape the stranglehold of a recent real-state controversy that had suddenly stained what was once an impeccable motive and intention to run for the presidency.

Senator Chiz Escudero on the one hand is still out there flaunting the very wide and sizable networks that he had built from the grassroots in the past several years, through frequent countrywide visits and guesting sorties, and not to forget his very brisk Internet networking activities. That aside from his well-known reputation for boisterous outcries against anomalies in the present government.

And who else, uhmn, maybe former President Estrada still holds that celebrity charisma that had catapulted him to the topmost position of this land in 1998.

It could be a wide open race, despite the ferocious strength and railroading entrance of Liberal Party’s Noynoy Aquino-Mar Roxas presidential team.