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I'm happy we have a pretty good crop of candidates this time, relatively speaking.

Actually, I think we have a pretty bad crock of candidates, none of whom inspires much of anything other than resignation that once again no matter who wins the races freedom and limited government lose, but never mind for now. (Said crock puts me in mind of Murray Kempton's observation, from 1962, "It is difficult for one who has enjoyed both the taste of our beer and the flavour of our politics to decide which has gone more sour in my lifetime.")

But that's just me.

But, yeah, it gets pretty disheartening to see the ad hominem attacks, piling on, bumper sticker slogans, vulgarity, vitriol, and immaturity when we should be arguing the facts and the policies.

My own rule is, insult the politicians to your heart's content if only because they earn it. (Perfect example: His Excellency Al-Hashish Field Marshmallow Dr. Barack Obama Dada, COD, RIP, LSMFT, Would-Be Life President of the Republic Formerly Known as the United States.)

But don't attack someone for preferring the candidate you don't prefer, or for holding a view contrary to your own for no reason better than that they do hold a view contrary to your own.

I can see legitimate attacks on a candidate's position. Especially when backed up with information. Real information, not carefully cherry picked quotes of hesaid/shesaid material from one of those liberal news sites we used to shred on a regular basis but is now being summarily accepted as gospel if it slams the candidates someone doesn't like.

Unfortunately, there is an incredible amount of the latter. Those sweeping generalizations, those howled innuendos and half truths are circling the globe and it is grossly irresponsible to post such without vetting it instead of blindly accepting it and repeating it as gospel because it slams 'the other guy'.

I have no qualms about calling someone on that crap, especially when a couple of links away (original article, their source link)there is all the information they needed to see the sweeping allegations were either unsubstantiated or out of context, or both.

While I admit I am more likely to call someone on that when it is aimed at my candidate of choice (so far), it just isn't right. It demeans this forum, and even worse, it hampers the process of figuring out who is most likely to stick to what they have said they will do when elected.

We have seen plenty of those who get elected and forget every Conservative notion they ever had as soon as the acceptance speech starts.

I seriously doubt this nation will be straightened out in my remaining lifetime, but would like to go to my Creator having done my minuscule bit to sort things out and head this country back in the right direction.

That is one heck of a lot harder to do when the signal to noise ratio around here is getting ridiculously low.