Dr M's Delegate Bid Unusual

Several Umno leaders have described Dr Mahathir Mohamad's bid to become a delegate for the Kubang Pasu division as "unusual and inappropriate".

"It has never happened in the history of Umno that former prime ministers and former Umno presidents would contest to be in the G7 and become a delegate," said Umno supreme council member and Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar. [Source: NST)

So, in other words, there shouldn't be a precedence. Other leaders said that Umno must examine his motive, that he should not bring himself to that "low level" by becoming a "mere" delegate.

That's a long-winding, beating around the bush, remark to express what essentially is a just-under-four-word sentiment: "Tun, don't come!"

As for the thing about "historical precedent", I guess that is no longer a valid argument nowadays. Minister Syed Hamid knows it, you know it, I know it -- that precedence is no longer happening once in a while. Precedence is created even as you are reading this, for without it, what we have is just history repeating itself, again and again, till oblivion.