Maybe someday
Maybe someday we’ll see a presidential campaign (hell, any campaign) that was fought and won by the merits of each individual candidates strengths and weaknesses, their political track record and the values that they truly believe in. Wouldn’t that be nice? I think so.
But we really know that something like that will never happen.
Poor, poor Mitt Romney gets caught in a lie at a Staples store speech. Oh wait no, that’s not a lie, that a “technicality”. His campaign isn’t “run” by lobbyist Ron Kaufman, it’s run by his campaign manager. The fact that he has a lobbyist at his side at all times just means that… you know… he must be just there for his witty jokes and bartending skills. No I’m sure he has nothing to do with the campaign at all but he most certainly doesn’t “run” the campaign.
Now I do believe Romney when he says that Kaufman is an unpaid advisor. I believe that because politicians do not pay lobbyists money. Lobbyists pay politicians money. So maybe a more realistic statement would be that Romney is a paid advisor of whatever Kaufman supports. I’m sure there’s a technicality to explain away everything though.
Probably not going to happen with television and youtube on the forefront.
Believe me. I’m with you on that. I have to Caucus tomorrow and I still have no idea who I’m putting my vote behind. I don’t like any of the candidates. I guess I have to support the least scary.
Supporting the least scary is no longer the least scary option for me. Last election I voted for Bush because Kerry scared the hell out of me and Bush was about as lame duck as you could get as far as doing anything. And we all know what happened after that….