Mudslinging

There has been a big splash in the news lately about a well-known conservative authoress. Why I don’t really know, as she been on the political scene for quite a while as a ‘champion’ for conservatives. But since she has been a little more public lately, it gave me a chance to see a video of her speaking on some sort of show. I was sickened by what I saw. This woman was sarcastic, annoying, scantly dressed, arrogant and down right rude. The liberal with whom she was talking on the other hand, was poised calm and exceptionally polite. What is the public seeing when they see or hear things like this? They see a proud, defensive, and liberal-mudslinging woman who uses a good deal of her speech to slander liberals and they possibly assume that much of the conservative world is like it. Of course, it works the other way also. Just today, I heard a Democratic Congressman who said some very needless and untrue things about the President and Vice President. What I wish people in Washington could realize is that political mudslinging is unprofessional, unhelpful, and generally is despised by the American public. The legislatures who are in Washington now were sent there to lead our country, not to start a war between Democrats and Republicans. Politics has gotten so dirty that it has become a byword for an untruthful, double-faced, and power hungry acts. I wish we could restore it to what it should be. A group of men and women who, if they wish to speak, speak on the issues and not on their political rivals, A group that looks to see what is best for America, not what they can get, not how they can be re-elected, but what the best way is to lead America. On that subject, they may debate as much as they choose. But choosing to slander the other side just because they are the other side, does neither America or Americans any good. I am a hard-core conservative. But I am sick and tired of politicians on both sides that choose to play ‘nasty words’ with each other. Certainly not all do, in fact, it is very possibly the minority, but it is there nonetheless. Sometimes I wonder how much more efficiently our government would run if they would work with each other and not against each other. I’m not saying they should compromise, no, but rather that they could disagree in a more adult like manner: that they could disagree without throwing mud at each other the first chance they get.