Lee Teng-hui had an excellent opportunity-when he took office after Chiang Ching-kuo died he could have dropped the KMT, and he would have been the greater for it. But now he's inextricably bound up with them-he's both President Lee and Party Chairman Lee. In the long term it hardly seems worth it.
李登輝有很好的機會，蔣經國死後他接班就可以把國民黨丟掉，就會變得很偉大，但他丟不掉，現在絞成一團，既是李總統又是李主席，長遠看來很划不來。