First off, if you braved the rain to vote today, thank you. If you couldn’t be bothered, don’t regale me with your opinions: they’re worthless, and I don’t want to hear them.
The 2006 race has been one of the ugliest and most petty I’ve ever seen, and it’s gotten national attention. I’ve been bombarded with political attack advertisements on every media possible for the last few weeks, including the most offensive, on my home phone.
Hear me now: if you stoop to this, I will make a point of not voting for you. All it says is that you have no qualifications and no agenda worth putting forward.
Of course, that pretty much describes all the main traditional party contenders this year.
Even the challenger for the State Supreme Court ran an attack ad closely mimicking the 1988 Willie Horton ads. Other radio spots featured your typical Georgia soccer mom (with that godawful, over-affected southern drawl and hideous ring of self-righteous Christian arrogance) lambasting a candidate because he indirectly supported an abortion measure. Continued...