Bring It On! Election 2008

Politics is a blood sport. Candidates eat each other like famished drunks feeding on pretzels at an open bar. They pontificate, obfuscate, and speechify until we bend to their evil will or wander off in search of something meatier and more substantive - Britney’s nervous breakdown perhaps.

We can already see America’s short attention span at work. All most of us remember from the campaign pre-season are mental images of the Huckster playing bass with some kick-ass evangelical death metal band and Rudy taking a call from his wife mid-press conference. Lou Dobbs is positively apoplectic that no one seems to be the least upset that brown hordes yearning to be employed are kicking down America’s doors and stealing jobs from American grape pickers.

Recent polling suggests that The Big Issue^TM for this primary season - the twin Wars of Error - has flown out to the far edges of our national radar screen. Aside from Rudy chanting his political birth date - 9/11 - there’s nary a reminder that the country is at war or why. War coverage has gone the way of space launches - interesting the first few times, but finally dropping into the background. You’re vaguely aware of something going on, but couldn’t remember a single astronaut’s name if you were answering the last question on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

I’m sure the wars will be back. There’s another year before the election and The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight will monumentally and publicly screw the pooch again before then. However, it’s a shame we seem to be taking our eye off the ball now. The surge is mid-stream and the administration can blather about its success without fear that anyone will point out that “success” in this case means staying in that kabob-pocked rat hole indefinitely.

The net result of this inattention is that a rotten apple administration will be completely released from any responsibility for their nut case actions. There will be no impeachment. The dems will open countless investigations, but none of them will result in anything more than limp-wristed hand slaps to a President wearing hockey gloves.

One could argue that what’s done is done, but they’d be dangerously wrong. From stacking federal courts to wallpapering every government agency with the worst policies ever, his misdeeds and incompetence will stick to us for years.

None of the weasels running for Leader of the Free World^TM want to mention that because it would lock them into actually fixing things when they settle into the padded chair in the Oval Office. But the truly sad part is that we’ll have our election and then doze off in front of an episode of Dancing With the Stars.

That way, we’ll all share the blame and be collectively let off the hook. Just like the Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight.

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