When Campaign Ads Become Hate Ads

Here we are, at the beginning of another presidential election year. Let the childish mud-slinging and hate mongering begin. The jury is still out, in my case, on which GOP candidate I dislike the most; the closet-liberal money hoarder, the adulterer, the geriatric, or the check-kiter-in-denial. Yes, these are the choices the Republican voters in my state have to choose from. I do feel bad for them.

I once heard an acquaintance of mine use this term to describe our elected body; 'A bunch of functioning drunks'. I have a feeling she may be right. How else do you have such screwed priorities when it comes to the welfare of your country and its citizens? Hell, you ply somebody with enough drugs and alcohol, they might agree to anything and then forget what transpired until the faux pax is front page headlines. That's when the compromises are made in hopes that mistake disappears into that parallel media never-never land called 'the vortex of lost news stories' or '<fill in politicos name here>'s last drinking binge/dui arrest/adulterous affair that went away', until the politico-in-question decides to resurface in some campaign bid and that's when those closeted skeletons, reappear, courtesy of their opponents, or disgruntled ex-lovers.

The least these carpet-baggers can do is own up to them with just one sentence; "Seemed like a good idea at the time". Watching these candidates trash each other is THE most unprofessional conduct I have ever witnessed on this Earth, really. 540 of the most important jobs in America and the majority choose to behave less-than-professional while holding others to a higher standard than themselves. That's called a 'double-standard'. No background checks required, no drug test required, no security clearance required, just a bunch of dead presidents stashed in some offshore account and you're qualified. Who cares if you never graduated high school, or served in the Military, or if you robbed a bank, or some elderly person, to finance your next fix?

Scared yet? I consider our candidates, and incumbents, less than perfect, and yet, they try to pass themselves off as saints while looking down on others. They use their wealth to wall themselves away from us 'common folks'. Whenever these candidates come to Nevada to promote themselves, they pick THE most expensive Las Vegas resorts to hold their fundraisers in. Heaven forbid they procure the local community center, high school gymnasium, elementary school assembly area and expose themselves to those 'unclean' citizens (working poor) whose votes they so desperately want. Yes, I do think our candidates are less than civic-minded when they come to my state. Just because Nevada is dead-last in public education funding doesn't mean we're stupid.

This morning, I was watching a program on my local news channel called 'The Rant', and a caller asked a VERY valid question, directed at our political candidates;"Why don't you all come visit the black neighborhoods? You need our votes, why don't you come and talk to the black people here?" I'd like to hear Romney, Paul, Santorum, or Gingrich answer that one.

Stay tuned.