My Primary Irritation

Yesterday, my darling daughter brought me the contents of the mail slot. My mail was comprised of this--



I'm not kidding. All of this came YESTERDAY. Nothing else. Just political campaigns for the upcoming primary election because someone stupid (Me--I'll just admit it and save you the trouble of digging out your magnifying glass and looking at the address in the picture) registered to vote in high school for civics credit and picked the party that her dad was a member of. And in the last almost 2o years, it just hasn't seemed all that necessary to change it as I am not a partisan voter.

I am totally rethinking that decision.

I understand that election time means political campaigns. It means that every other advertisement on the television is "paid for by _________________ for ______________." It means notices in the mail and phone calls over the dinner hour asking me to answer "a couple of quick questions" about a particular candidate and (of course) to donate some money to their cause. And in the past several years, it has come to mean hearing more about what someone doesn't do or does badly, than what someone does well.

But primaries are the absolute worst!

Because now its candidates who supposedly belong to the same party trying to out-Democrat or out-Republican each other. So now instead of big government vs. little government; life vs. choice; environment vs. industry, etc, it's who's MORE pro-life. Who cares MORE about immigration laws and lower taxes and a host of other issues.

Only instead of "I'd be better for this job and here's why," it's "You would be way worse for this job than I would be and here's why."

ARRGGH! You know it's bad when your twelve-year-old points it out to you out of the blue from watching commercials and when there is no room on your answering machine for important messages because "Kansans for Whomever" have left you a 10 minute long message trashing their opposition. And it's especially bad when you wish for credit card applications to be the junk mail in your box instead of ten smear campaign postcards.

And these people want us to trust them to run the country.

So come on, Kansas "conservative" Republicans! Let's get busy and "conserve" something!

You could start with paper...and answering machine space...and my sanity!!

And in the process, you just might be able to preserve some of your "alleged" integrity.


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