Inability to recognize reality:
"To this day I am unwilling to believe that the rumors calling for [replacing me at the top of the KMT presidential ticket] are real," [Hung Hsiu-chu] said.
Reality:
- "[KMT Chairman Eric Chu] asked Hung to relinquish her role as presidential nominee up to three times in September."
- "Hung’s campaign team confirmed that KMT headquarters had recalled five of the seven staff members that the party had “lent” Hung’s campaign."
- KMT Chairman Eric Chu helpfully announced he's willing to take Hung's place should the party throw her under the bus.
- "…party members yesterday at a KMT Central Standing Committee (CSC) meeting [proposed] an extempore national congress to replace Hung…"
Time to script her "Downfall" parody.
POSTSCRIPT: Hung does have a point however, when she says the KMT will look like it doesn't have its act together if it removes her:
…Hung had strong words for her detractors, saying that her ouster would mean losing the "last bit of expectation that the public has of our party" and that the party's past practices had belied the public's trust.
"What the people despise is the KMT's lack of transparency, its secrecy and its deal making," she said.
I'm enjoying the KMT's dilemma a little more than I should. Keep Hung, and the party goes down in flames.
Drop her, and spark an internecine war within the party. (After which, the party may very well go down in flames anyway.)
The KMT nominated Lady Straitjacket fair and square. Do not go gentle into that good night, Hung Hsiu-chu. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.