Oh my GOD I can’t wait until election day. Not because I am anxiously waiting to stuff it to the republicans, but mostly because I am SICK OF THE HARASSMENT!
every day, phone messages from politcal automated voice recorders, asking me if I think family values are important. (yes, I do. my family includes my dog. why can’t I bring her to into a restaurant’s outdoor eating area? chew on THAT for a while, family values parrot)
I get 4 or 5 of these calls every day. I don’t answer the phone if I don’t recognize the number, or if there is no caller ID, but they still leave voice mail messages, oblivious to the fact that the automated voice is asking questions to MY automated voice.
gah!
Then the commercials. OH MY GOD, THE COMMERCIALS! MAKE THEM STOP!
Sonny buys land on the cheap and then appoints the guy who sold it to him on the land management committee. He buys land slated for preservation and sells it to developers.
But then his wife comes on and tells us what a nice, caring person he is, and aw shucks, they would just LOVE to serve us for another 4 years.
Pathetically, most of Georgia will fall for his wife’s line.
My personal favorite are the people running for…wait. I have no idea what they’re running for. But the one guy I think is named Wiggins. Wait! Georgia Supreme Court, that’s it. Anyway, Wiggins is running all these commercials about how tough on crime he is - actors portraying criminals talking about how they hope Wiggins doesn’t get elected because then their fun would be OVER! And then the VERY NEXT commercial is from his opponent (uhhh…some chick) saying that Wiggeis has never tried a case, never argued a case in court, he sued his own mother, and had made threats to kill his 8months pregnant sister and has a court order to stay away from her.
HA!
OK, that’s kind of awesome. but some of the other commercials are just irritating. I didn’t even know we HAD elected officials for some of these positions. Insurance commissioner? His commercial has people reading all these letters they’ve “written” thanking him for the great job he’s doing.
Uhhh…selling insurance? What does he even do?
Agricultural commissioner? OK, I suppose that’s important, being that most of Georgia is so rural. But is that really a hotly contested position right now? do you really need to spend money on TV advertising when you’re already the incumbent? Because honestly? I think most people vote for the incumbent unless they have a really big beef with them. Like…uhh…last year I wanted to grow GM corn and that asshole wouldn’t let me. Or something like that.
I would like to put a commercial on TV to campaign for an office that doesn’t exist, against an opponent I made up.
“My opponent SAYS he’s tough on bugs, but last year he let caught a cockroach in his house and LET IT GO in his front yard. Do you want my opponent letting cockroaches loose in YOUR yard? Where they can KILL YOUR CHILDREN??? Don’t let my opponent continue his tradition of pest leniencey. Please, think of the children.
My name is ESC and I approved of this message”
“paid for by the ‘ESC for pest control commissioner’ campaign”
you’d vote for me, right?
I hear you!
How can I miss you, if you never leave?
And the day they get elected, they start fund raising / speeching / bashing opponents for the NEXT election, years away!
Gah!
Makes me just want to scream. I just checked the mail and found a flyer that had a rubber band stapled to it (for ease of door-to-door spamming I guess) asking me to vote for the guy who’s had the job for as long as I can remember. I don’t get the point–everyone who sees his name on the ballot once again will keep him in office, so why waste money on a campaign?
Granholm and DeVos are both detestable bums. It’s like a choice between getting kicked in the nuts or having someone take a hammer to your shin…
Ugh. Well, I can always ice my scrotum… Go Granholm…
I’d most definitely vote… the scariest part is that I did once have to vote for a pest control commissioner!
congrats, big hugs, sorry I missed the big occasion and all the excitement.
Myles
So you’re leaving on Sunday to get back in time to vote too, huh?
I’m writing you in for every office.
I live in A State which elected Movie Star, Arnold Schwartzanaeger as its Governer. (I know, I know, but at least, Reagan could speak English.)
So, like, I Can Relate.
Me too, TDR. And it’s deplorable. He’s such a fucking embarrassment I’m actually moving out of the state!
(Ok, that’s not really why. But for just this week, let’s pretend it is!)
I’d vote for you twice. They do that in Georgia, right?
Here one of the guys running for Congress was involved in the Foley scandal. He and his opponent are putting out nothing but attack ads. The most ironic part is that the Republican incumbent refers to his Democratic opponent as “millionaire Jack Davis”. Since when to Republicans hold being rich against you? But they’re WAY annoying. There’s another Democrat that’s running mostly positive adds, but his incumbent opponent’s entire campaign seems to be “He’ll raise you social security taxes and cut benefits.”
I can’t wait until the election is over either.
I get lots of flyers in the mail and they go right into the recycling. I know I’m supposed to care about local politics. But really, I just can’t force myself to do it. I go to school, work full time, and take care of my family. I don’t have time to figure out who’s the most qualified dog-catcher.
lol - as i was reading this they said on the radio - Does it seem like you’re seeing more campaign advertising on TV this year? Well you are, political based commercials are up a third from last year.
Tired of waiting for the election to be over? Register and vote absentee. Then you can fill in your ballot at leisure, BEFORE the final tsunami of campaign filth FROM BOTH SIDES engulfs you.
And with your ballot safely marked and mailed, it’s remarkably easy to ignore all the ads.