and Yanukovych a Reasonable Ally?

On 1 September, Tymoshenko was the recently praised Prime Minister of Yushchenko's government. By 28 September, she was apparently so unpleasant a partner to Yushchenko that he preferred to ally with Yanukovych, a man who smeared him, bullied his campaign, and stole an election victory from him through fraud.

I've been reading the news, Tymoshenko has said or implied some unpleasant things about Yushchenko, generally by criticizing his allies. So what?

Leaving aside that Yanukovych robbed the whole country, he and the other RoU deputies said and did more churlish things againt Yushchenko personally than Tymoshenko ever could. I've got a posting on his ridiculous debate with Yushchenko before the election rerun, and that wasn't half as bad as the one before it. I've got a short video of him calling Orange Revolution supporters "goats". (the equivalent of "bastards") Yushchenko seems to also have forgotten the welcome Yanukovych's Donetsk gave him when he was on the campaign trail last year. He also seems to have changed his mind since he accused Yanukovych and Kuchma's government in September 2004 of trying to murder him. Even if he has, it doesn't change that Yanukovych's buddy Havrysh accused Yushchenko of using his own poisoning as a "political technology" to help him in the election, as if Yu was not supposed to talk about an assassination attempt during an election. Other Yanu supporters called it a manifestation of Yushchenko's previously and subsequently unknown alcohol abuse.

So Tymoshenko has accused Yushchenko of cozying up to powerful businesspeople, Yanukovych and Kuchma organized billboards calling him a Nazi, then followed it up by unethical behavior of the clearest sort. Assuming she was trying to make money on Nikopol, like Yushchenko accuses her of doing, I still don't get how this makes her worse than the "bandits". I would think it would be better to go on his knees back to Tymoshenko, if he had to (or not kick her out in the first place), than go to those people.

It seems Yushchenko is not one of those people who "never forgets a wrong done to him." I used to think that was a good character trait.