"I am willing to dismantle this time-bomb and if I fail, I will be the first to die."

It is beginning to sound like a regular movie script fit for an action hero but nevertheless, MCA president Ong Tee Keat could be forgiven for being overtly dramatic. He is in fact, not fighting, for an ideological victory but a battle for hearts and minds.

The MCA president is currently on a nationwide tour having covered Johor, part of Perak and Selangor, at each stop delivering the same message in different shades and shapes of arguments, wooing emotional empathy and garnering winning support particularly from the party's central delegates.