A Blueprint for the next four months!


What are the chances that if this goes much longer, we will all be in a stupor.



And it’s a vicious cycle.



We all began at the beginning.



We support our candidate.



And now about 37 days later, after all of the caucuses and votes, all the second guessing, and editorializing and punditry, are we any better off now than before it started?



The candidates are just about in the same position .



It seems that everything we’ve heard from the Talking Heads reawakens a kind of déjà vu.



Why? We’ve heard it all before. Now, the Heads are feeling the pressure. Not only do they repeat what happens, they tell us what is happening and what’s likely to happen./



It's a matter of telling each story each day three times multiplied by the number of Talking Heads....


The operative word here is that we are “Overlapped” to death!”



And there is no fast way out, no way to emerge from this smothering blanket of repetition that dulls, deludes, attempts to demystify and literally anaesthetizes the senses…



The commentators and their “guests panelists” that make up “the smartest editorial team on TV” are the same people they were when they weren’t the smartest editorial team on TV; most of them are being rewarded for no evident distinctions…. They are simply people who make their money this way. They are not some gifted prophets peering into the night. Most of them don’t know any more than we do…..



Of course, the candidates don’t help. They deliver their stump speeches over and over again. It’s sometimes what happens on the fringes, the slips, that become interesting in this constantly regurgitated epiphanies to sameness.



We hear that so and so is going to give a speech. We listen. It’s the same old stuff we heard last month with a few new modifications to reflect the area and different needs.



Each has their style. Obama never delivers detail while that’s all Hillary does until you close your eyes.



McCain says the same old thing he’s been saying since the Vietnamese let him go….



Huckabee says the same stuff over and over again but he says it in a friendly, folksy way….so that isn’t too hard to take….



And that makes it easier for the commentators not to switch their pitches….

Which even they are believing….



The only thing is that sometimes repeating the same thing over and over, whether or not the candidate said it, builds reinforcement for the message.



As a result, the magazines pick it up and rehash the words of the TV commentators leaving the candidate to salvage as much as possible from his real words that are predicated on a set of circumstances that they believe to be true.



McCain really believes that the Surge is working.



Huckabee believes we should change the Constitution so that we can have a Presbyterian party, an Anglo Party, a Lutheran Party—well, you get the picture.



Hillary believes that she is the underdog although she claims to be the “experience” candidate; Obama believes that he is the challenger, while he outscores Hillary.



Huckabee thinks he can win even though it’s a numerical impossibility.



Obama knows that he can win because Hillary won’t get the “cross-overs’ or the Independents.



All in all, there’s a lot of confusion made worse by the myriad interpretation of the words of the candidates…



And this is what we might have to sit through for another four months.



Where’s the Advil?



Les Aaron