I like Harry Reid personally. I’ve known him and his family for almost 30 years and I actually like them. I’d never vote for him in a million years, but personally, I have no problem with him or his family (A side note, Harry’s son, Rory is running for governor and won’t use his last name—he’s Rory2010.)
Which leads me to why we vote for the Congressfolk that we vote for. I’m going to vote for the person who will most vote like me. It’s as simple as that.
The activist old media works hard to make elections about minutia, the little “he said, she said” garbage that make the media what it is. They love that stuff for a few reasons, it gets ratings, it usually fits their agenda and it makes them cash, lots of cash. If campaigns are about petty little things like what a candidate did in high school or what they said in grade school or who their Junior High gym teacher was, then it costs lots of money to counter that garbage with TV ads. Ding, ding, ding—follow the money.
Oh, the media will say they would like campaigns to be about issues, but don’t believe it for a second—if the Harry Reid/Sharron Angle race here in Nevada were just about issues, and the media presented it that way, Angle would be up by 20 points. She will vote as Nevadans want her to vote on healthcare, stimulus, cap and trade and US Supreme Court nominees. Harry will not, so he has to take things out of context when she talks about social security and jobs and hope that something sticks so that he can keep his job.
This is nothing new; I can pretty much guarantee the same thing is happening with the media in whichever state or city you are in right now.
Bottom line—the job of members of Congress is to sit in their little bubble in D.C. and vote. Vote! They don’t “bring home the bacon” for your state — we are out of bacon. I don’t want them there because they are supposedly so powerful that your state could never survive without them, our Founders built this country on the premise that the states held the power, not the Politburo in D.C. Which is why it was the states that originally selected their two Senators, not the voters.
If I were in Delaware I’d have no problem with Christine O’Donnell, in Alaska, give me Joe Miller all day long, in Kentucky, I’m voting for Rand Paul and not thinking twice… and on and on. They are representatives and all I want is somebody to represent my vote in D.C. I cannot stomach thinking Reid would be in D.C. for another six years to vote on immigration or Supreme Court nominees.
For the next five weeks, watch the media in full-blown garbage mode — and then watch them complain that the candidates are not discussing the issues. It would be funny were it not so pathetic.