So long T-Paw we never knew ya

I am not a Tim Pawlenty fan. I feel I know nothing about him other than whatever the focus groups wanted me to know, as I don't think he ever uttered a true or legitimate word during his whole run for the white house: thus keeping pace with most of his untruthful competitors. Still, Tim Pawlenty is gone before barely a vote has been cast. He has been deemed as having no chance of winning and, though this is probably true, how would we know when he dropped out before anyone had a chance to vote for him. Michelle Bachman had a little over 4,000 votes in a rigged system, where they all had to buy people to come in and vote for them. Those 4,000 votes were enough to finish off Pawlenty.

Does any person on this side of reality see a problem with this system? My only question is will every candidate concede before any flesh and blood people have a chance to vote for them. And will we be told to endorse another candidate, thrown up by this rotted corrupted system. No doubt we'll need at least one "anti-Romney", "anti-Perry" or "anti-Bachman" candidate to go through with the process and to perpetuate the whole charade of giving the indifferent American public the illusion that this year they really did have a choice.

I had an idea why don't they have everyone vote on one day for one of the candidates and declare the person who gets the most votes to be the winner. No, that's probably too close to democracy. Dangerously, too close. Instead, lets have a bunch of charade races that money can shape both the debate and the outcome while their corporate mouthpieces gaggle on about who had a good week and who had a bad one. A legitimate election across the wide United States spectrum would propably be incredibly expensive to fix and mistakes are bound to happen, like the wrong person getting in. It's a lot easier and less expensive to manipulate the media markets in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina - and a lot less expensive too. Besides the television stations in those markets are always grateful for a handout from free "shadowy corporate" entities that will come about in the post-Citizens United world. As for me, I say so long T-Paw we never knew ya.