Dear Windsor,
I have to disagree with you here.
I do not have "poor judgement" of character; definitely not as poor as WP's leaders as in YSL's case. In fact, YSL is not the only "poor judgement" WP leaders have made, just that such time bombs will only blow up when the time is ripe.
My reading of the ground is spot on most of the time. Be it predictions on Aljunied or AMK ground back in GE2006, or Marine Parade, Tampines or CCK in GE2011. On the contrary, WP leaders have bad strategic judgement. It has insisted to bulldoze into MK as well as edging off Desmond Lim in Punggol East, giving such a bad excuse of "proximity" which is totally crap because Marine Parade is just next Aljunied and East Coast GRC as compared to MK. If it has the political strategic acumen, it should have instead combined force from Punggol East + MK team to take on Marine Parade and we would have a very good GE without any 3 corner fight at all.
To think that I have made the decision to give way to WP, hoping that it could have sent a stronger team to win MK, I am definitely not as stubborn as WP which insisted to go into 3 corner fight at all cost.
Some may question me about PE2011 but I would just say that I was supporting someone I feel would be a much better President in the wider context of balancing the power than the other 3, not someone I feel would win the PE. If supporting someone whom I think will win is my objective (for gaining whatever political capital so to speak), I would have chosen to help Tan CB or even Tony Tan. Those who are in the closed loop would know what were the advices I have given back then.
And my reading of the ground for WP right now is spot on again. The impact of YSL saga is more far reaching than what these WP IB would admit and the middle ground swing voters are doubting WP's credibility in wider context after the plagiarism saga happened on top of YSL saga. The ground has turned so bad against WP so much so that WP has to stop its weekly Hammer Sales for more than a month right now. The reason is not about concentrating on Hougang by election battle; Hammer Sales is the most important political activity WP concentrates on since 2001 and it won't stop it for no good reasons. It was because residents on the ground were questioning WP leaders when they were going around selling Hammer about YSL saga repeatedly and in some cases, nearly become heated argument in public that they have to make the painful decision to suspend such important political outreach activity until further notice. Hammer has literally become waste papers.
Skewed political views? I seriously doubt so. It depends on where you stand and it is relative to your political positioning which will make you feel that my political views are skewed. Both WP and PAP supporters would find my views skewed but it might be just the case that it was right at the neutral centre which both extreme sides view it as skewed.
As I put it, I am to sorry to say that your view is actually totally skewed when you lack the ability to analyze and see things in proper context with objectivity.
Goh Meng Seng
He has some guts, that I have to give him. As a political aspirant, his days are over for various reasons. His stubbornness is legendary as many here will attest. He has very poor reading of the ground, skewed political views and poor character judgement. Need I go on?