It’s just started and I’m already fed up with the 2012 presidential election. We all know how it’s going to turn out anyway. Romney will be the Republican candidate and Obama will be the next President. The Democrats will keep the Senate and the Republicans will just barely keep the House leading to four more years of the nonsense we have been going through for the last four.
Instead of spending all this PAC and Super PAC money interrupting my TV shows for the next six months, let’s do some good with it. The Democrats can buy Chevy Volts and birth control pills, or voluntarily pay more income taxes.
The Republicans can use their money to find health care “consumers,” drill for oil, take lessons in human nature and they can also give a little to Rush Limbaugh for civility lessons.
Or, both groups can simply make a donation to reduce the deficit.
Frankly, I don’t care what any of them do with their millions as long as they don’t insult my intelligence with their barrage of lies and misleading information.
Where did I put that “I Like Ike” button? “Stevenson, Stevenson he’s our man, if he can’t do it no one can!” “In your heart, you know he’s right.”
See, cheap and memorable.
QUINNSCOMMENTARY 
Letter to our local rag in September 2011
Editor:
We have more than a year of dreaded anticipation to suffer before we’ll know who spent the most money to buy our White House for four years, and the stench of the seamy subculture of politics already pollutes our minds.
Without shame, candidates boast about the millions and millions of dollars they raise for their campaigns and spend advertising on TV, radio, magazines and the internet to convince us they’re good folks.
Likely all of them are not bad, but most we should look at very carefully.
The dangerous ones are ego-driven, power-seeking people who will say and promise anything to get elected. If they ever did possess a conscience, they’ve taught it to instantly forget all they said, all they promised, once they utter their biggest lie of all, taking the oath of office; on a Bible, no less.
And finally (thankfully), after months of blaming each other for the problems they all had a hand in causing, we may have a different president, some new faces in Congress, the blood will have dried, but the wounds will be so deep that the fierce battle for political power will continue.
If the Democrats gain the upper hand, they’ll vote against everything proposed by Republicans. If Republicans are in charge, they’ll vote against everything proposed by Democrats. “Nonpartisanship” is the answer to a clue in a national crossword puzzle which neither major political party is capable of solving…or cares to.
In 1785, George Washington wrote that either we are a united people or we are not. If we are, he said, then we should, in all matters, promote national objects and national character. He also said that if we are not united, then let’s stop pretending we are. His words were right then, they’re right today.
George who? Look it up.
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(“seamy subculture of politics” I stole from William F. Buckley)
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We could use an intellect like William Buckley these days.
Dick
Richard D Quinn Editor Quinnscommentary.com
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