Clinton, Trump, Carson, Rubio, Sanders and many more have stepped up and laid their claim to running high-end campaigns for the presidency. It is still almost a year and a half away from election day, and I’m already sick of hearing about it.
Campaign ads.
Don’t get me wrong, I love seeing a morally corrupted politician getting his or her sketchy past brought into discussion, but there comes a time when it is too much. Who hasn’t done some thoughtless, stupid things in the past like getting drunk and making an ass of yourself? Don’t be modest. That does not need to come into question when one is running for office, yet politicians seem to think it is okay. It is hypocritical to present yourself as a kind and humble person in a democratic election and then expose someone’s past shortcomings in order to get ahead. It is morally wrong, it is mean, and it is completely unprofessional.
Hey! It’s 2015.
The election is in November, 2016. It is now July, 2015. My social media sites and television stations are filled with candidates pimping themselves. I remember a few months ago hearing that about how Hillary Clinton visited a local Maumee, Ohio Chipotle, and Toledoans went nuts for it. It was all over the local Toledo news stations about how she randomly visited Maumee. The point of the story is this was a few days after announcing her candidacy and already I was over hearing about the campaign. Now with the clown car of GOP candidates, November 2016 is always in my face, or my ear. It seems like the one who runs first also runs out of steam first.
GOP’s clown car.
Nothing says “I’m confident in my party” than 17 people claiming to run for president for the same political party. I am not against the Republican Party, but I don’t think any of the candidates truly know how to fix our economy or any of our other affairs. I like Ben Carson (I am not going to vote for him, but I like him), but as a person who truly is his own man, he really hates the social programs that helped him become so successful like financial aid or welfare.
It is really scary when your own party’s leading candidate is Donald Trump. From what I have observed from my fellow peers, the main reason they want Trump to be president is that he is a successful businessman. His foreign policy is going to ruin foreign policy and he seems like a terrible person. By the way, had he been smarter with his investments in the late '80s he would have upwards of $20 billion and not his estimated net worth of $4 billion. In his defense, he is a self-made man who borrowed millions from his family’s fortune.
Bright lights.
My two favorite candidates are almost complete opposites. The leftist, Bernie Sanders, has been referred to as socialist by many people against him. Don’t worry it doesn’t mean anything. Most Republicans call people socialists that they do not agree with. He is against big business, and he is not afraid to take on the system.
On the other spectrum, Rand Paul should get the Republican nomination because he believes in equality and that the citizens should have more say than the government. He seems to have flipped on some of his views after announcing his candidacy, but I still do not think it would be a bad thing if he were to become president.
Both Sanders and Paul may have very different ideas, but they are both moral, and honest, and I for one would like to see more of this in the White House.
