Too Soon!

In the wake of the Iowa thingy majigger we have officially kicked off the 2012 Presidential race and good god am I sick of it already! Who do I blame for this headache? Al Gore? Minnie Pearl? Dame Judith Anderson? No. I blame you, news outlets! All of you, Fox, ABC, NBS, CBS, NPR... Everyone of them. Of course I also blame social media,  Hollywood, and for some reason Crest Cavity Creeps for this.

Remember the good ole days when a candidate would stand on a stump, give his stance and if you weren't there then you didn't have to hear it? Yeah, I miss those old days. One, sometimes two speeches, then you had a decision to make. Now you get months of conjecture, blabbing, bald-faced lies (well we had them before) in-fighting, counter points, debates, news specials, countdowns, reiterations, accusations, people from the past holding a deep dark secret, and for some reason someone dug up Harry Reasoner.

We need politics. I hate to say that but, we do. If we didn't have it, then the same four people would just get elected over and over agai..... Umm, moving on; without politics we wouldn't have the choices we do.

The problem is that the election process has gone from a civil debate on the issues to an all out episode of Springer that lasts for 18 months and in the end you, as the voter are sitting there waiting for Maury to open the manila envelope and tell us if we are or are not the father vis a vis making the right choice.

All I'm asking for is a more orderly process. I've given up on believing promises that will inevitably be broken by both sides. The system is not only broke but it seems to be skipping the same utter drek over and over and over and... well you get the point.

My fix is simple: Come October, figure out the two (ish) people running. We don't need it to heat up as early as August primaries; most people know who they're voting for by then anyway. So shorten it to a month before the election, have your debates, your commercials and your tours; then the first Tuesday in November, let us all vote. Win or lose, we get what we voted for.

And for the love of the maker, leave the maker out of your speeches. He/she/it doesn't give a damn about who wins or loses. Plus, he/she/it is too busy trying to figure out how to forward a text pic of some drunk guy Tebowing on a cloud in front of Jesus' place to Gabriel to care.