1. Ke Wenzhe seems to be in a desperate situation.
At the end of 2022, Taipei Mayor Ke Wenzhe suddenly broke a shocking news in an interview with **, saying that an unknown person was willing to contribute $200 million to ask him to serve as his deputy in the 2024 election. This revelation immediately caused an uproar in Taiwan's political circles. Ke Wenzhe did not directly name the object of this news, but said sarcastically, "It shouldn't be Guo Taiming's money." Everyone understood that he was alluding to the Kuomintang.
The main reason why Ke Wenzhe threw out such a ridiculous news is because his current political situation is very bad. In 2020, he announced a high-profile cooperation with the KMT, but not only did he not win the approval of the blue camp voters, but he lost some of his original supporters. With just over a year to go until the 2024 election, various polls show that Ko's approval rating is sluggish. He desperately needs a chance to boost his momentum.
Therefore, Ke Wenzhe's news of "asking him to be his deputy for $200 million" is likely to be just a political hype or election strategy by him, with the purpose of creating a topic and increasing popularity. However, this kind of open-mouthed and fabricated method has gone beyond the basic political bottom line, making many voters look down on him and think that he is "desperately smearing" his opponent.
Second, Ke Wenzhe still goes his own way, which makes people look down on him.
After Ke Wenzhe broke the news, it immediately attracted questions from all sides. Spokesman Chen Zhihan even said on the spot that they had evidence in their hands to prove that the money was from. However, when asked about the specific evidence, Chen Zhihan hesitated, saying that he would wait until the time was ripe to release it.
This further highlights that Ke Wenzhe and his team are paying lip service. They simply don't have any evidence to support their claims, and they just want to discredit their opponents by groundless. This has greatly reduced the impression of many rational voters on Ko Wenzhe, believing that he has always gone his own way and has no lower limits, and even began to question the decency and integrity of his politicians.
Does he still have any decency left?Is it worth $200 million on its own?Some of the comments hit the nail on the head. If even the basic political and moral bottom line is lost, how can Ke Wenzhe win the trust and support of voters?This has become the biggest doubt surrounding him.
3. Ke Wenzhe was criticized by the dean of National Taiwan University and Huang Zhixian.
Mr. Ke's move also drew criticism from some members of the public. One of the most interesting is the voice from the National Taiwan University School of Medicine. The dean was Ke Wenzhe's teacher when he was a student, so he knew him quite well. The dean publicly criticized Ke Wenzhe for being "mediocre in qualifications, self-righteous, and clever in his words."
In addition, the well-known ** person Huang Zhixian angrily denounced Ke Wenzhe in public as an "obsessive-compulsive liar" and a "two-faced villain". Whether this is an exaggeration remains to be debated, but Ke Wenzhe's recent behavior does cause people to reverie.
Fourth, Ke Wenzhe may feel that the election situation is unfavorable, and use the following three indiscriminate methods.
According to various indications, it is believed that Ke Wenzhe's high-profile revelation of "being offered $200 million as a deputy" is probably the result of his feeling that the election situation was difficult and he deliberately used the next three indiscriminate means to disrupt the situation.
By distorting the facts through this fabricated attack, Ko Wenzhe tried to portray the KMT as being backed by mysterious black money behind the scenes. This will not only divert attention from the outside world's declining approval rating, but also take the opportunity to increase its own popularity.
However, this rhetoric has made many rational voters lose patience. I don't believe that the Kuomintang is currently capable of coming up with such a large sum of money to support Ke Wenzhe. Ko Wenzhe's intentions are obviously vicious, and he intends to attack his political opponents by slandering his opponents, but this just exposes the fact that he lacks political trust.
Fifth, Ke Wenzhe may become the biggest loser.
At present, in the face of Ke Wenzhe's smear hype, the KMT can choose two ways to deal with it: either it can completely ignore it and end automatically after it is boring and "self-satisfied";Either-for-tat and bitterly criticize its evidence as untrue and crush its malicious slanderous behavior.
Either way, Ke Wenzhe's stalking will not end too well. The other personas have collapsed, the future of the political party is in doubt, and it may even withdraw from the election due to scandal. The biggest loser at that time is probably Ke Wenzhe himself.
To sum up, the news that Ke Wenzhe was "bought" with a huge amount of money is very likely to be an absurd farce under the unfavorable election situation. How to deal with this kind of indiscriminate political means is a test of the political judgment of voters. But what is certain is that the capricious and discredited Ke Wenzhe is destined to be the biggest loser in the second election.
Will Ke Wenzhe's practice of smearing and attacking his opponents become the "final laughing stock" in the election?