Reply #13: Two best we could find, indeed! [View All]

You are right on here! Every freakin' election cycle I see a number of candidates who seem to think outside the box or bring even ONE NEW, FRESH idea to the table. They are invariably pushed out to bring us the blandest of the bland. And it starts with the stupid media for literally turning it into a horse race every year to get ratings, or money, or both or who knows what.

And every year I find myself voting for the lesser of two evils just like everyone else.

I mean, look at GWB. We all KNOW now how horrible he really is, but I have to admit during the 2000 primary, I looked at the list of Repukes and thought, "now that guy is really unelectable". He'd never run a business in the black without a bailout by some of Poppy's friends and I know how Repukes love money. But what happened? He "won" the whole kit and kaboodle!! "Twice" (note quotation marks).

Of all the Dems running last year, I thought Kerry was among the weakest. He was still better than GWB, but I did not think he was a strong candidate. And then look how interesting candidates (heck, even Al Sharpton brought some reason, humor, and occasional good sense to the debates) just dropped like flies in that stupid front-loaded primary season. By the time my state got to vote 6 weeks later, there were only 3 left from which to choose. Out of 10!!!

And I agree most Americans are stupid by choice and lazy, probably also by choice. That doesn't help much.
This is a great post. Thanks for putting it up there.