Election Day From Hell

Perhaps at this point in the presidential election race you are considering the outlook for November and asking yourself, "Where are all the assassins when you need them?"

Okay, that's a bit extreme. But when we do think about Election Day, we have to think about ourselves in the voting booth. We are going to be mugged by that ballot box or computer screen. It is going to rob us of our integrity, our sense of decency, our honor; it is going to take all our good intentions and crush the life out of them. We will leave the voting booth knowing we have done a good service to no one. Never again can we look into a mirror without seeing Benedict Arnold staring back at us. We have just killed America.

It didn't have to be this way. The two people who are almost inevitably going to be the contestants in the final run for the White House could have, and should have, been stopped. But the politicians who could have stopped them were too busy cringing under their own fears of not getting re-elected to do the jobs they should have done, namely, finding candidates capable of winning an election while still possessing honorable, intelligent leadership skills.

Our political leaders have lead us into such a dismal situation that I despair of next Inauguration Day. Or, maybe they didn't lead us. Maybe they just wandered off the job and let us drift into this mess. We are not hearing the comments we have a right to expect from Washington. We should be hearing protests and promises to find better solutions during the political conventions. In all of America, there simply must be two people imminently more qualified to be president than the two currently leading the contest. The convention delegates must dig down deep into their guts and find the courage to give America's voters better, more honorable, candidates to vote for in November. Voting shouldn't be blood letting.