I am so bored with the Republican primary fight. I miss the old-fashioned smoke-filled room, where political bosses got together and hand-picked a candidate and served him up to the convention for a coronation.
They weren’t always right, of course. But at least the public was spared months, if not years, of haggling by potential and not-so-potential presidential wannabes.
If nothing else, this current campaign points out the fallacy inherent in the so-called Fairness Doctrine in which the Federal Communications Commission dictates that all candidates be given equal time on the public airwaves.
Lacking the ability to use editorial judgment to include only those candidates news executives deem “serious” contenders, they are forced to put on those beauty pageant “debates” in which the participants pander to a niche audience.
Unless one candidate actually gets enough delegates to claim the nomination outright, my bet is that we may yet see the “Return of The Pols.”
Set up the drinks, boys, and get out the air freshener.
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