Sweet-Second Time Around

Although the application here is political, this time is another tangle for the mayoralty seat of the municipality of Initao. Retired army colonel Fancis Balabat is again, as he did 2005, going to try to beat and unseat the now mayor by succession Enerito J. Acain V, for his wife Alen, the first woman mayor of Initao, fled to the U.S. To evade arrest. Francis was defeated then and of this return bout he is hopeful to even the score. If this was boxing, he was defeated once through unanimous decision when he got knocked down 2005, came back for SB 2007, knocked down again but not out, for here he comes in the ring for another try! He must have done his roadwork and proper conditioning from his nutritionist and coaches that strategies and tactics for this venture would work as these should and must. In boxing, jabs and power punches for the stats must count a convincing win, but this is politics. The reality is not that way. One gets knocked out if and when the wind is not favorable. As the challenger, his strategic and tactical moves must be workable to alter the wind thus result in the favorable outcome of this fight. After all, as a sage saying goes, “It's not how hard you do it, but it's how smart you do it”, to win this game. Gogoy is no game, he is one political Goliath. It takes one political David to defeat him.