COMMENT Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin is fast becoming Barisan Nasional’s slickest campaigner.

Not exactly the ‘Slick Willie’ or the ‘Tricky Dickie’ of American campaign lore – the nicknames, a satirical play on two of the most slippery American politicians of recent decades, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon – but close.

Admittedly, ‘Slick Muhyi’ or ‘Tricky Muhyi’ doesn’t have the same oomph as ‘Slick Willie’ or ‘Tricky Dickie’, but if Umno’s chief tub-thumper goes on the way he had done recently, comparable epithets may be dredged up and may just stick to him...