ABC News has reported that 91% of GOP television campaign ads are negative. Comparatively, 81% of the Dems ads have been negative.

The GOP, it further observed, is the ‘winner’ for the most negative ad campaigns, with “volumes of assaults on the personal character of Democrats…which is often misleading or false.”

Yawn…This comes as no surprise. It’s a tenet of majority-ism, the recently revealed GOP agenda (see my article entitled “Majority-ism”). And, it attempts to clutter the facts with silly little sound bites that are supposed to fool the voters into thinking that the Dems will raise taxes, and the country will be the worse off for a change in government.

I don’t know about you, but with the decimation of the middle class that we’ve seen under the Bush Administration (see my article ‘Uh Oh…More Trouble), a tax hike seems like a miniscule threat. The middle class has typically been the largest tax paying base, so since there’s barely a middle class left to pay taxes, I guess the wealthy will bear the brunt of the increase, and most everybody else will benefit.

In addition, either party can raise taxes. It just depends on what’s going on in the world, and whether we can afford to let the deficit grow…

But that’s just my opinion…

In all fairness, the Dems are targeting their campaign ads toward linking Republican congressional candidates with the most unpopular President Bush. A sly strategy as well, but one that I have to honestly say is more effective, since it makes sense to me that a GOP president, and a Republican Congress, would work together more often that not—to further the GOP agenda.

So, here we are—the U.S. voters, being bombarded on the verge of a holiday season with all of this negativity. What are we to do?

Well, I think we should vote on Tuesday, make our opinions known, and then move on. Politics, after all, are politics, and there are good and bad candidates in both parties.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve already made up my mind, so I will welcome the return of the innocent banter of toothpaste commercials, seeing what’s on sale at my favorite mega-stores, and watching ads for holiday gift ideas.

At this point, campaign advertising represents a waste of good money for me. Because, like most Americans, I am literate, intelligent, and have a pretty good memory.

So, no last minute posturing about the ‘telephone sex’ conversations a candidate was purported to have, or what House Bill they voted for (or didn’t vote for), is necessary.

I’m even convinced now that we wait much too long to hold elections. It’s evident that we get much more done in an election year than we do in non-election years.

Thus, I’ve got a different agenda...It’s time for holiday shopping, and for connecting with family. It’s time to insist that we hold elections at least once per year, and time to work toward getting mandatory impromptu drug tests for pols at least every six months (including alcohol testing).

It’s time to think differently—like maybe, let’s get an astrologer for president. That way, when things don’t work out right, we can blame it on the Moon for being in the seventh house of financial difficulty, or the ninth house of bad communications…

And then higher gas prices, corrupt politicians and war will be nobody’s fault. Things will just be turning out like they were cosmically meant to be…

Maybe that’s what happening anyway.

See you at the top!

Wendi