VishMahabir posted:D2 posted:VishMahabir posted:My prediction is that Volda will lead the PNC in 2020...and an Indo as PM...and they will spend a lot of time campaigning in traditional Indo and Amerindian areas...
Viola with this out burst has done permanent damage to her profile. She is now into the category of the dizzy and irrational no less than Priya with what was tagged by a wit as her "feral blast" at the ambassadors. Both individuals, are now being relegated to the talking points that leads to a laugh or as examples of idiots. I am not saying either of them are and despite my perpetual nagging of Plumpy, I do admire her as a smart woman ( light years beyond Ms Lawrence) Anyways, neither can be rehabilitated top public acceptability easily if ever.
I dont think many Guyanese will be too concerned about Volda's statement by the time the election comes around...people have short memory...some may argue that she should be forgiven because she apologized...Guyanese politicians dont seem to have the courage to do this, but this makes her different from the pack.
Her statement was meant to rally the "troops" and send a message to her traditional supporters. If anything, her statement will encourage others within the PNC to challenge her Presidential ambitions (Greenidge, Harmony, ??). But to the die hard supporters, the message has already been sent to them that Volda is their gal.
The talking points will come mostly from the Opposition...who will milk her statement...but politicians know that what matters most is their traditional racial base...
It is not the memory of the people but of the political institutions. Jagdeo was harangued for an errant remark and continues to have to defend that even now. Ms Lawrence has written herself out of being acceptable as a political candidate for office because her remarks were a paragraph long detailing of exactly what Indians presume the PNC is about.
Even I, as a neophyte can already conceive of a dozen Internet memes that can keep her fresh in the memory of the PPP target audience so think what the professionals can do. Plumpy has written herself off and her crimes were standing up for her country no less than Trump trumpets from his pulpit as the pontiff of Making America Great!
She will never hold any position of consequence unless the PPP places her there after the election. The Internet does have institutional memory so any day those who forget can be made to remember.