And So It Goes.....
And so it goes....Finally, last night after 18 grueling months of campaigning and 5 1/2 months of voting and caucusing, we now have our two Presidential Candidates. Whew....there has got to be a better way to select the contenders for this office. I am all for democracy and the people in each party choosing, but does it have to cost hundreds of millions of dollars? In some states the costs for campaigning for the Primary Election were more than what was spent in the last General Election in each state. I think we need a change.....
Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain are wonderful candidates and they both rose to the top like cream in a butter churn....but can't the process be streamlined and fine tuned so that there are more Super Tuesdays and more primaries closer together? Let's make every Tuesday in January and February a Super Tuesday.
Here is my idea. If your state touches the Pacific you vote on one Tuesday. If your state was in the original 13 Colonies you vote another Tuesday. If your state borders the Gulf of Mexico and does not begin with the letter T you vote on another Tuesday. If your state has any part of the Rocky Mountains in it you vote on another Tuesday. If your state is in the center of the country and you are going to vote for the Republican anyway is another Tuesday. If your state touches the Mississippi River and is not part of another group is another Tuesday. If your state touches the Great Lakes and is not part of another group you vote on yet another Tuesday and last but not least, if you live in a state that begins with T and has a capital named Austin you vote when you damn well please. We won't count it anyway because that is the price you pay for sending us George Bush II.
There you have it. In seven weeks we could get the decision done, our candidates will be picked and we can get on with the campaign for the fall. So right around Valentines Day we are finished and the national pundits can discuss it and poll it and dissect it and re-poll it until the cows come home. I like this idea. I also think that right after the grueling 7 week Primary Season is over, we force the two left standing to go on a 7 week vacation paid for by the taxpayers. It would be worth it to send them away. We would not see them, hear them or even think of them until sometime after Easter. The peace and quiet and interviewless news days would be a breath of fresh air. This only leaves about 7 months for the barage of messages, lies, inuendos and false-fact "nonpolitical party" based advertisments. We also should allow the candidates only so much per diem to campaign. I'm thinking like $75. That should cover two meals and some mileage reimbursement (If gas goes up over $5 a gallon my idea would be to increase it to $80 a day).
So that is the plan...Pure and simple. Stop the insanity. Lose the endless commercials and news stories. Make the politcal pundits look for jobs elsewhere, after all they only speculate and are never right (Remember McCain was all washed up and Hillary was a sure thing??????) Make the candidates drive from town to town and eat at McDonald's or Burger King in thier 1996 Ford Fiestas. It would save us a ton of headaches, make our lives more enjoyable and make them at least understand a budget.
And so it goes....phase one is over, phase two begins and phase three........well, I think I will nap until phase five. That way I will not be upset over all the excessive spending while there are so many people in need. I won't see the false promises and nasty commercials. I won't be thinking about puppet masters like Dick "Mr. Shotgun" Cheney, that will lead the candidates down the path of "political correctness". I will wake up on November 1st, listen to the two left standing and make a choice. Until then, maybe Cindy McCain will release her millions of dollars tax records and Hillary will send Bill back to Harlem to his office and Barack and Michele can pick a church with a sane leader. Oh and maybe by then the Fundamentalist Christians will start to understand the whole separate church and state idea and start acting like Christians. Well a man can wish, can't he??????
And so it goes........
