My personal rant: We need another Friggin' way to handle politics

[truedelphi]

We are a year away from living in an era of unlimited TV stations.

This makes me wonder if as a nation we make it to 2012, can we do without the campaign financing?

Hold a few initial primaries, and any and all of the top five candidates for either party can get their own TV station for sixty days. They can use their money to hire a crew - in this age of indie producers, cinematographers, scripters, lighting experts etc the candidates can put together their own footage. Even someone with as little in the bank as Dennis Kucinich could have paid for this type of staffing.

No more TV ads on M$M. This will make a more level playing fields so that the middle income person's
candidate will not be penalized for refusing money from lobbyists.

The other thing it will do is to take away the need of the M$M to control as much. They can't make money on the candidates and the stance needed by the M$M so that the candidates have to spend money to set the record straight.

And therefore PERHAPS at least during the Primaries, the networks may be forced to go back to the Fairness Doctrine - if any one candidate is mentioned, all of the top five will have to mentioned.


No more early setting up of a SuperTuesday. I am already sick of Hillary and Obama. And it isn't even February 1st yet. I can't predict how sick of either of them I will be by November. But I imagine my inner weather will be rather stormy, as I try and hold my nose come Election Day and vote for one of them only because neither of them is as bad as those on the other side. (Having said that, I am willing for either candidate to surprise me by showing mettle I have not yet seen.
Just because Kooch and Edwards are gone doesn't mean that either candidate cannot learn something from them.)

I have found myself saying lately, "Do we even need a President?" Or how about this one: let's split the Executive Office and have two people share the office. One can be the candidate of the Corporate elite, so that AT&T, Kaiser, DynCorp, HoneyWell, Boeing, Halliburton, Dole, Kraft, Sony, IBM, Micro$oft,etc. don't feel deprived. And the other can be the Candidate of the middle income class, that is the Candidate of You and Me.