MDC Alliance an alliance of cowards and confused people

We all feel fear. What separates the proverbial men from the boys, and women from the girls, is how we respond to our fears. Courageous leaders face what needs to be faced and do what needs to be done. Cowardly leaders make excuses, hide their heads in the sand, and generally take the easy way out like we have seen with the MDC Alliance calling for a voter's roll with photos as a sign of " free and fair " elections. All actions have consequences. So does lack of action.

You don't have to be an out-and-out coward to let fear impact your leadership effectiveness. Many people are unaware of how profoundly fear influences their decision making. Chamisa and his alliance once served in government and never implemented any reform which they are now howling about at every gathering.

Leaders and organizations spend too much time getting ready to be ready to get ready to almost get ready to be ready to get ready. Then they form a committee or a task force (which is just a committee on steroids) to evaluate more and look into the situation more so that they can really be ready. Getting overly ready is a result of fear. You don't want to fail so instead you put off the moment of truth by perpetually getting ready. Should you prepare? Of course! Do your research? Yes. But stop hiding behind the "we aren't quite ready" curtain.

Cowards will always look for a way to tarnish something clean by coming up with different false accusation. There are, however, indicators that suggest that your side might not do so well on polling day. To give you a better chance of winning one or two senatorial seats here are definitive signs that your party is about to lose the election. If any of these sound familiar, prepare for disappointment: You will attack any unfavourable polling published in newspapers, demanding to know the "sample size" even though it's clearly written at the bottom of every article. You will then skillfully discredit the data by posting comments such as: "Well they didn't ask me."

You convince yourself that "biased media" is lying to voters. You post comments on the Facebook walls of the "prejudiced cabal", decrying their duplicity before vowing never to return. Ten minutes later you return to post another series of comments

You decide that voters and politicians opposing your position are mentally ill, and it's your duty to combat their falsehoods through attacks on Twitter. Anyone posting facts is to be exposed as a traitor and agent of the state.

Despite being weary from a hard-fought election campaign in which you haven't knocked on a single door or made a single phone call, you pull yourself away from your computer to go and get pissed while the results roll in.

The day after defeat you console yourself with the knowledge that the fight isn't over. "The campaign begins again in earnest," you say, defiantly. You are now on the front line, a relentless activist for a better future.

You then join a Facebook group investigating election fraud and sign a petition demanding the "rigged" vote is rerun