Noynoy and Kris: Birds with the same genes

In a way, it could be a blessing in disguise that Kris Aquino is once again encountering marital problems. while it is not our intention to wish her ill, her troubles serve to underscore the invalidity of the “superior genes” theory used to prop her brother Noynoy.

Those wanting to push Noynoy into Malacañang do so on the basis of a strange conviction that he, being the son of Ninoy and Cory, must have inherited their good genes and thus deserve to be the next president of the country.

But if the “superior genes” theory can be applied to Noynoy, then most certainly it can be applied to his sister Kris as well. To say it cannot is to say what is good for the gander is not necessarily good for the goose. And then we most definitely will have a problem there.

To be sure, it was not Kris who rocked the boat during each of the many times that she sailed in love’s turbulent waters. It was her various partners who chose to stray each time and caused the boat to crash upon the unforgiving shores of failed relations.

Yet Kris cannot be totally absolved as having nothing to do with the failures. While she cannot be charged with the infidelities that soured her relations, at the very core of her constantly breaking heart is a seemingly endless capacity to make the wrong choices.

Kris is a sucker for love and lets her heart rule her head. And that does not seem to be a person imbued with “superior genes.” In fact it speaks very badly of someone as well-bred, as intelligent, as rich, and as good looking as her.

A person with such attributes ought to own a much broader perspective about how to pick the choicest of morsels from life’s intriguing plate of romantic possibilities. And there is that other attribute not available to everybody else — she is Cory’s and Ninoy’s child, like Noynoy.

As such, she is expected to inhabit the moral high ground, the destiny the image manipulators of Noynoy insist he possesses. Yet Kris, judging by the quality of her choices of men, always seems to take morality to its very frayed edges.

For Kris to always seem to fall for the wrong men is not an indication of a woman blessed with “superior genes” and it is wrong to say Noynoy would be any different when confronted with his own choices, even if such choices may be far removed from love and romance.

My point is that while it is easy to say Noynoy and Kris have “superior genes” simply because they happen to be the children of Ninoy and Cory, why then would it be difficult to say Noynoy is different from Kris when it comes to making the wrong choices.

Noynoy recently rushed to the defense of his little sister, saying Kris should be allowed her privacy, despite the fact that she is a mega celebrity whose face is on almost every billboard and commercial in this country.

Why is the privacy of Kris so special and inviolate when it is her turn to sink into controversy while those of others whom Noynoy and his supporters routinely criticize are not when it is they who get mired in controversy?

All these developments point to the fact that Noynoy and his supporters are not beyond resorting to the employment of double standards when doing so perfectly suits their vested interests.

Even without the problems of Kris, Noynoy is already notorious for his double standard in dealing with important issues. He has been exposed to have paid nothing more than lip service to land reform. And he only believes in surveys that favor him, demeaning them if they do not.

To this day nobody has taken up my challenge for the man who gave Noynoy any serious thought as a presidential timber prior to the death of Cory to stand and be acknowledged. That is because there is none. Had Noynoy been it, why the heck would Mar Roxas have wasted his time.