Upcoming Elections Part 1: Mud Flinging

It's amazing. Every 3 years we start the whole presidential process again. And every 3 years we get the same load of horse crap. Delivered straight to your door and dumped on your head - courtesy of the screws who want your vote. They assault our televisions with hate laced ads intended to make the other guy look bad. And all courtesy of your friendly first amendment.

Well fine. I'll accept the first amendment argument, but I'm going to counter with a little logic.

Yeah, you can call the other guys losers and liars, but you're wasting your thirty seconds to one minute of airtime on an ad campaign that causes the voters to switch stations. I've yet to speak with one person who says, "Oh man! I just loved Ted Kennedy's ad against his opponent where he calls him a liar and a hypocrite. That got my vote!"

Yet every time we vote we are molested by these heartless, pointless, angry, and utterly childish smear campaigns created by people who don't have anything better to do than sit around thinking of ways to try and make the other guy look like a pile of refuse. In the end, we know nothing of the guy who paid for the ad. How can we vote for anyone when we don't know what anyone stands for?

The point of the whole electoral process is to give your platform interests, not ring the fight bell and come out swinging. The first time a guy runs a clean campaign, will be the first time the majority of the country votes for him - because it will be the first time.