FIND YOU'RE PAYING LESS ATTENTION?

Do you also find that you're paying less and less attention to political shows and articles?

Fellow blogger Harry (harry2335.blogspot.com/) and I often trade e-mails but  seldom ones of a political nature. While we have very similar values we don't always agree about politics and have little fun in agitating the other.

Wife  Phyl recently asked me,"Who are you going to vote for in the Presidential election?" .Resisting an  impulse to immediately respond  "Pat Paulson" - I didn't answer at first.

Not that there is a lot of secrecy in the Sullivan family - I just honestly didn't know what to say  because I can't find anything real positive about either candidate.

Mitt is the typical politician who changes his opinions almost daily. Barack thinks the economy is doing fine and has never had a humble moment in his life -having decided it's a great defense mechanism..

Obama promised  openness during his term as President and has done just the opposite. Poor Mitt can't seem to decide consistently  twice in the same week in which verbal category the insurance mandate belongs. Instead,   he comes across to many as having the intellectual depth of  a pay toilet - with about as much longevity, I might add..

Because we in Florida are in a swing state, we currently  receive almost as many Political ads on TV as  we do Attorney ads - and trust me, that's a helluva lot.

Regardless of the source above - politicians or lawyers- , both are mostly spewing  lies or at least half-truths. But, Hey, that's why we have Freedom of Speech!

 Do you sometimes  get the impression that most of the legal firms who advertise so much do so with the same  attitude as  do some of our most outrageous movie stars - "As long as they spell my name right - and remember me -who cares what they think or say about  me?"

Having worked in the insurance industry for about 35 years I  believe the use  of the mute button on the remote for attorney ads  may be one of our truly great freedoms in this country. I encourage more people to take advantage of it's presence.

We have turned into a nation of liars - including those poor sad addled folks who brag about military service accomplishments that never happened.

 But, once again "Robert(s) and The Supremes" - a group that includes "Heckle and Jeckel"  as sidemen -decided that to punish these folks was a definite threat to Freedom of Speech.

The bottom line is that if every entity is allowed to say (see Citizens v United) whatever they want to say - and have the resources to do so where their ramblings have the greatest opportunity to be seen or read-  we are thankfully left with that  valid option -"the remote". Turn them off - and believe nothing that they say.

Even should whatever these political types claimed originally, later be revealed clearly to be  the "worst of the worst" lies, their reply (if any is given) will still be be the same, "I'm sorry -I must have mispoke."


These guys (and gals)  remind me of the wife who stabbed her husband 37 times - "accidentally"!

"Honesty", like the use of "curb feelers" to help park the car, has become a anachronism.

And, that's sad; particularly if after a while you throw your hands up in the air and conclude "nobody" is telling the truth (besides Harry, of course) - so, who cares?

Here's a better and final option. Why not turn off the news and/or Jerry Springer and instead  tune in  to the Encore Westerns channel?. Select  "Matt Dillon's Gunsmoke, and listen to a true character -,Festus Haggan..

Yeah, he's a liar too - but, he's a funny one - who means no harm..

So Hon, looks like  Festus is gonna be my main man in  November.

Problem solved.