I've just read this article from the Star Online. I think Kit Siang is being very honest, although I'm not sure why the DAP and PKR people did not seem to foresee this serious possibility much earlier.

To be honest, this is why I wasn't feeling very jubilant at the March 8 general elections just because the opposition alliance was successful in shaking the ruling party. When people come together as allies just because they have a common enemy, it is a sure recipe for an impending disastrous alliance.

How can various people with such differing ideals for a nation, some even drastically conflicting with one another's ideals, form an alliance just because the only thing they have in common is the enemy before them? Once the enemy is defeated, the allies begin creating new enemies - one another.

And as they begin fighting with one another over their own unique ideals for Malaysia, leaving the country in continued economic and political instability, who's left feeling stupid? The rakyat.

To be sure, if I sound like I'm making a political statement, I'm no political commentator. In fact, I'm not even partisan when it comes to my political position. I support neither the ruling party nor the opposition. I prefer to think in terms of the values of each individual candidate.

But with what's happening now among the component parties of the opposition alliance, I think they're no threat to the ruling party. At least not anymore.

We cannot be friends just because we hate the same person. Such alliance is illusive.