The Georgia Governor's Race

I will be glad when the midterms are over. I'm so sick of the political ads that try to best each other in the amount of mud they sling. The bad thing about most elections these days is that neither candidate is a good fit for the job. It's just whoever climbed to the top of the pile and got their party's blessing to run. Why not let 2 or 3 candidates from each party run? Why should it boil down to a playoff system? This ain't baseball, it's hiring the people who directly affect our security and general well-being.

That being said, look at the Georgia governor's race. Barnes vs. Deal.

Roy Barnes has already been governor once. His platform is the usual: more funding for education, green technology, and rural economic development. He also wants to bring back the property tax reduction Sonny Perdue got rid of. I'm not sure how this will be paid for but that's a typical Democrat for you. One of his most well-known accomplishments as our former governor was getting the state flag changed. To me, this is the typical way of getting the focus of real problems to move to extraneous stuff that doesn't really change our paychecks. He is also against showing a picture ID when voting. I think that if you have to show an ID to buy beer and cigarettes, why not voting. It's a lot more important than beer and cigarettes!

Nathan Deal got his start as a Democrat senator, switching parties 4 months into his second term. His last re-election was had by winning the race in a time when the people were fed up with Democrats, not by any personal virtue. He got into an ethics scuffle over pushing on some legislation that would directly affect a business he owned. He resigned his seat before the Ethics Committee could fully investigate him. He basically has the same goals as Barnes, but that's all bullcrap anyway. They just say what they think we want to hear. By the way, he voted for Clinton's impeachment, which in itself was set up to be a distraction from the real issues of the day. I'm a bit nervous about him being governor because he sort of resembles Larry Hagman when he played J.R. Ewing on "Dallas".

So, we're down to the lesser of the 2 evils, which is the way it always plays out. It's a shame when the lesser criminal is the one everyone picks (sometimes).