Our Presidential Election process

Before I start bloviating on this years Presidential race, this new piece of information just hit the wire services.

"Next Monday, 25 February 2008 is the official start for the election cycle for the 2012 Presidential Election. Please mark your calendars for this Sunday evening's broadcast of "The race for the White House, 2012."

Sadly, the above bit of foolishness is not far removed from reality.
It seems like this years race started the day after President Bush won re-election to his second term. "Lame Duck in the White House, the race for '08" aired that weekend.

Trying to find a viable candidate this year is akin to going into "Greasy Mac's fast food Emporium" to order healthy sustenance. It ain't happenin', brothers and sisters!

If you are a political conservative as I am, the prospects for November 4th are indeed stomach churning.
I am told to hold my nose and vote for a classic Beltway Country Club quasi-Republican.

"Please be quiet, we know what's best for the Party, just do as you are told!"
"Never mind that I tried to destroy the First Amendment, voted against tax cuts, and sided with the other party more than I did my own.
I am a conservative, dadgummit! Just look at this picture of me with Ron Reagan!"
Well, to steal a quote Senator, "We knew Ronald Wilson Reagan, and sir you are no Gipper!"
Nor is anyone else, for that matter.

If I don't vote at all, or if I vote for a third party candidate I will help put a left leaning Democrat in the Oval Office, and remove any chance of having a check on placing another liberal justice (or two or three) on the Supreme Court.
One party would then control all three branches of the Federal Government, and that party has in the past proved they will ram their ideology down our throats.
No pretense of shared power or balance should be assumed!

Our friends and family who lean slightly to port are less than thrilled with their choice as well.
You either put the Clintons back in power, and yes they are a matched set, or you vote for someone who as of today has given potential supporters no screaming idea what he really stands for on any issue.

"A vote for me is a vote for Hope, and everyone knows that Hope is great!
Change is good, change is wonderful, and we are going to change!
We're moving into the new century, moving from point A to point B, we are going to dialogue, we are going to have mint tea and cakes, and everyone will be hopeful!"
Hoorah!

Huh? Who is his speech writer, Dr. Suess?

This will be my tenth Presidential Election, and by far the most obfuscated and weak slate of candidates yet.

Truly the only happy person in the D.C. fishbowl is President George W. Bush.
He is probably as eager to leave that rats nest behind him as a kid anticipating Christmas.
Whomever 'wins' the office in November will have a honeymoon lasting, oh maybe 48 hours.
Then the piranha will start circling, the media that has loved him or her will turn on them like a rabid junk yard dog, and we will start the entire viscious, incestuous cycle of terror all over again.

Straw polls, May poles, Barber Poles, caucuses (isn't that a region in Siberia? Maybe we should send all of the politcal pundits there!), primaries, secondaries, incendiaries, etc ad naseum!

If I hear one more Beltway Political insider tell me how I think and who I will vote for this fall, I'll go back out into traffic and chase cars again! I almost caught that Porshe Turbo I've always wanted last week!

Maybe just for grins we should all do a write in vote for the following ticket;
Rambo and Mary Poppins!
He could handle all foreign affairs, the War against Terror would be over by Christmas.
And she would help us to take our medicine with a spoon full of sugar.
For certain she is a lot better looking than Hillary.