Freaky Deaky Friday - #13

WHEN DID THE CITIZENS OF AMERICA START SETTLING FOR SECOND BEST?

This question is mainly for all of the Conservatives who say that we should hold our noses and vote for McCain because he is the lesser of two evils, rather than sit this election out. Many say that in this election, McCain is the best we can hope for and even though he isn’t really a Conservative, he would at least be better then Hillary or Barack, but is that really true?

At what point did we stop demanding top quality in our elected officials? Rather than quality, many will vote for candidate A just to keep candidate B from wining, not so much because candidate A is any better or smarter. Don’t you think America is suffering from a crisis when we cannot tell the difference between candidates of one party from the other, or that the choices we have are all people we would never have put in office in the first place?

I believe that the problem is two pronged, one being the mediocre quality of the people who run for office and are lacking in any real intelligence and having any real concern for the well being of the citizens of this country and this mediocrity of political candidates didn’t just start this year, it actually started with Jimmy Carter and then really took off with Bill Clinton. The second prong of the problem can be laid at the feet of the Conservatives, who seem to lack the backbone to stand up and demand better. When an elected official, such as G.W. Bush, lets down in a big way, those who elected him in good faith, what is the reaction of the Conservatives? The majority of them continued to support him 100%, even while he was selling out our national sovereignty. In the case of McCain, the Conservatives attitude is, “Oh well, he is the best we can do, so we’ll just hold our noses and vote for him.”

The lack of excellence in those running for office has led to complete disillusionment with our political system and our government which seems to thrive on mediocrity. This continued mediocrity in our government and the Conservatives continued acceptance of mediocre candidates can only lead to an ever more mediocre society and the downfall of America. We have been voting mediocre people into our various government offices and in return they have thrust mediocrity upon us.

With the dumbing down of students in our public school system, we have produced mediocre college students which led to mediocre college professors who produced mediocre college graduates who became the mediocre leaders of this country which has led to the farce of a political campaign we have today. But there is an answer to all of this. It is called courage and common sense. It is the courage and common sense to stand up and demand better. Demanding that our political candidates and leaders show a real and genuine concern for the people who elect them, demand that they live up to their oath of office and start defending and living up to the Constitution of the United States. If the liberals can fill the streets and march in mass and be vocal about their demands and what they want, then why can’t the Conservatives do the same thing? Why do the Conservatives always have to be the ones who are forced to negotiate a way every thing they want? Aren’t we supposed to be better than the mediocre air heads on the left?

So, to paraphrase Neil Cavuto from the Fox News Channel, the Conservatives need to get a backbone and stand up for what they want. “A backbone is that thing just above your ass that you sit on.”