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I'm depressed.
No, not in the clinical, weepy, pill-popping sense of the
word -- I'm really just plain sad. Weary. Mournful. Depressed. I
hope it's temporary. Not so much for my sake, but for the sake
of our country.
The past several weeks of ongoing election drama have sent
your usually happily-jaded commentator into a shocking spiral of
doubt and despair. I didn't think it was possible for me to be
any more disgusted by national politics -- or more correctly,
politicians -- after the 2024 elections. This year has proved me
wrong.
What is happening to this country? We now live in a nation
where politicians don’t think twice about the public
repercussions of turning a memorial service into a partisan pep
rally. A nation where laws are made to be broken by politicians
and celebrities -- and no one really cares. A nation where you
can bash someone for being a homosexual and a hairstylist -- but
only if you are a member of the political party that advocates
special governmental treatment for such people.
Like many Americans, I watched with horror last week as
ex-President Bill Clinton clapped old friends on the back and
worked the crowd with his trademark donkey laugh -- in the
middle of what was supposed to be a solemn remembrance of eight
tragically-wasted lives. I watched as partisan political
players, Democrats all, BOOED the minority leader of the United
States Senate as he arrived to honor his fallen colleague. I
watched as those same Democrats then chanted and screamed for
victory, led by the son of the dead.
It was enough to make me sick to my stomach, but it was only
the last straw. This whole election season has given me
indigestion.
Robert Torricelli -- remember him? He’s a Senator from New
Jersey, and he’s been awfully quiet since he illegally pulled
himself off the ballot because he wasn’t going to win. To
listen to the media, you would almost think septuagenarian Frank
Lautenberg had always been the Democrats’ choice for Senator
in New Jersey. He wasn’t. The New Jersey Supreme Court chose
to legislate from the bench and overturn existing state laws
prohibiting electoral bait-and-switch. Now, with less than 24
hours to go until the polls open, it looks like the Democrats’
dirty trick is going to pay off -- and the people of New Jersey
will be at fault for allowing it to happen. (Listen up, Jersey:
if you vote for Frank Lautenberg tomorrow, you deserve whatever
he gives you . . . or takes from you. It’s just unfortunate
his vote will count for the rest of us, as well.)
Then there was Montana. In that state’s Senate race, the
Democrats ran an ad containing a 1970s clip of Republican
candidate Mike Taylor giving a man a facial at the salon he used
to own. In the film clip, Taylor wore a leisure suit and gold
chains, as was the style of the day. Unfortunately, the people
of Montana apparently regard any man wearing bell-bottoms and
touching another man as "gay." Presumably, the
Democrats knew this, and that’s why they ran the ad. (So much
for fostering a culture of "tolerance.")
Doing very little to dispel the image he was so offended by,
Taylor had what is known in the South as a "hissy
fit," and exited the race. Lawsuits were threatened. After
pouting for a week or so, he had a change of heart and is now
running again with the slogan "Countdown to Decency."
Decency, of course, meaning that no one will be allowed to call
him "gay" anymore.
The debacles in New Jersey and Montana, in addition to some
of the more typical, though nasty skirmishes going on around the
nation (most notably in Arkansas’s and Iowa’s Senate races),
would have been enough on their own to make this year one for
the record books. Add the last week’s inconceivably ghoulish
"memorial" service, and you have a recipe for chronic
nausea and a bad case of the blues.
To all who read this column, I beseech you: only you can
settle my stomach and ease my pain. Go to the polls tomorrow,
use common sense, and vote your conscience. Don’t vote for
those who celebrate a man’s death like it was a golden
opportunity. Don’t vote for those who abuse the electoral
system created by our founding fathers. Don’t vote for those
who say one thing with their voices, but another with their
actions.
In other words -- don’t vote Democrat.
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