The musings of a former office worker stuck in his house applying for jobs, when he would rather be out on the water.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Election Day

  Get out and vote! And I want you to vote for one reason.Not for all the altruistic reasons, so often cited by the media. I don't care about  your civic duty. I don't care about your convictions. I don't care about that one particular issue that makes or breaks your vote for a particular candidate. None of that is more important than one thing.

  When polls close tonight, political ads are over. Done with. Off the air for a couple months filled with peaceful ads for E.D. medication, or new cars. I never thought I would miss E.D. commercials until this election cycle. Whether you consider it a referendum on Obama's policies, or a vote to stop the Sarah Palins of the world, we can all agree that this cycle, election ads are at a saturation point. I watched my favorite show last night, a fairly silly sarcastic crime drama. Whole entire commercial breaks were political ads and nothing else. Lets break down what the two sides are saying.

Republican: The Democrats are bad bad liars. They raise your taxes, take your money, give it to people who don't deserve it and like to kill babies, take your guns, and bring down the heavy hand of European Socialism upon America.

Democrats: The Republicans are bad bad liars. They want to give all former felons guns, make everyone worship their God, only give tax cuts to the obscenely wealthy, and try to trample the poor and downtrodden, because let's face it, Republicans love kicking the poor when they are down.

  And this is all you hear. How many candidates run positive ads about their campaigns? I didn't see any last night. I may have seen one or two about 3 weeks ago, but I think they may have been intended as ironic ads.

  So in closing cast a vote today, a vote to stop these overbearing, caustic and insulting ads.

And for you Pennsylvania folks, thats Onorato. Dan Onorato. Because all you Pennsylvania morons are too stupid to be able to pronounce his name.

3 comments:

  1. I love your reasoning. This is the last thing I expected, which makes it awesome.

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  2. I live in a state with run-off voting. If the governor's race goes as predicted and none of the candidates get over 50% of the vote, there will be a run-off between the two candidates with the most votes in about three weeks or so. This unfortunately means that the political ads will probably be continuing here for another few weeks.

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