COMMENTARY | I love politics. The day-in-day out, what's going on in the legislative session, the potential impacts of new laws, the clashing of ideologies, the ongoing discourse. What I don't love, though? Endless campaigns. Caucus time. This. What we've been building up for months now. This never-ending job interview that has overtaken the media, complete with hyped up reports of every single twitch of the poll numbers, every tedious tidbit of what could sway the race this way, what could twist it that way. Seriously. It is too much.
And, according to a January 3 ABC News report, it could last a very long time. Undoubtedly, we will all spend the next few days discussing and dissecting the Iowa stuff. And next is New Hampshire and South Carolina. Apparently, too, the Republican National Committee has changed its rules, ABC News reports, "in the hopes that a longer GOP primary would generate more national interest in the eventual Republican nominee."
I dare say that your tweaking of the system may have the opposite effect, RNC. The long season gives ample opportunity for every skeleton to be pulled from every single candidate's closet. No, the skeletons aren't merely pulled out. They're named. They're paraded about. They dance with the skeletons from other candidate's closets. Some of them even have skeleton babies who grow up to get skeleton loans and go to a state-sponsored skeleton closet of his or her choice, this campaign season is so long. Why does it need to be so long? When did the act of running the nation become an endless parade of debates and poll numbers and soundbites?
For those who might argue in favor of us all having an opportunity to know the perspective nominee, whomever that may be, I say: Yes! Let's do that. But there's got to be some other way than how we're doing it because this process seems to be sucking passion out of the notion of finding a new leader. In fact, this has gone on so long that it seems the passion has gone out of all the potential new leaders, as well.
How do we make this a more interesting process?
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