Jeff's Commentary - 10/5 - Our Choices for Political Office Dwindle

I was watching a talk show this morning and they showed the new Christine O’Donnell political ad. She is running for the Senate seat in Delaware. Pretty big job since there are only 100 of these people in the Big House.

It begins with her in front of a camera and states “I am not a witch.” Really.

I had to stop as I was dressing and was stunned at the ad. Have we fallen so low in our ability to attract good candidates to run for high public office that we are left with people running that start their campaign ads by denying their affiliation with the girls of Salem?

The country is a mess. But what’s sad is that there are many competent wonderful leaders in public and private sector that simply would not go through the media attacks that running for office is all about today.

So we are left with candidates who have to disarm the public first about whether or not they are witches or masturbate.

In Arizona we already have our share of knuckleheads. We have politicians in office who talk about headless bodies in the desert and scare off our tourism business. We have folks running for office who don’t run on their own merits and skill but use ads that attack the President as being the “worst President in history”. I’d like to get Ben Quayle on and see if he even can recite the Presidents we have had in office. I bet he can’t.

I don’t know if Mr. Quayle would be a good politician or not but I wouldn’t know because his ads don’t tell me about how he would work with others to find solutions.

And then we have a complete lack of understanding what the Arizona and American public want. Jobs, a safe neighborhood to live in and helping out those that need a hand. People working together for the common good. Seems pretty simple.

But we have to find folks to do that job that aren’t starting their political ads with, “I am not a witch.”

Jeff