There are many people claiming that the nomination process for the presidential candidates has gone on too long. They fear that this will allow polarization to solidify within the voting base that will hurt party chances in the general election. It does not take a stand up philosopher to see that such polarization does not take time to happen. People aligned against McCain a long time ago and, with the drop out of all competitors, those people have had plenty of time to make alternate plans for election day. Primaries actually do not last long enough.

What the elongated contest has done is energize the base. People whose vote has never been counted in a primary now have a say in who will be the party’s candidate. It is the same polarization that has resulted in less than half of the voting public actually bothering to go to the polls. This time that portion of the voting public will be visible because voting will matter to them. If the primary elections ran longer with viable candidates, there would be enough interest in the election to make people show up for the general election.

That would be a bad thing for Girdy, the official candidate of none of the above. Girdy’s base is the disenfranchised voter who has been ignored when the electable candidates are coronated early into the primary season. I have to wonder if the whole perceived problem with these longer primaries is that the negative campaigning within the two major parties arms the cross party candidates when the negative campaigning for the general election starts. If you really did not want to arm your opponent for the general election, then should you not avoid the negative campaigning in the primaries and stand only on issues? Since Girdy has no real issues, he has wisely remained silent.

Girdy does not need party backing. His disinterest in the voter, equaled only be the voter’s disinterest in Girdy, is the same as all the other candidates and Girdy is honest about it. Most candidates have a park of rabid pollsters determining how to deliver their empty promises concerning things that government could not actually do. Combine this with 12 years in public seminaries learning to put unquestioning faith in the one true government and the voters vote without a first or second thought. It is time that we elected Girdy just to tell the parties that we can think on our own.

We do not need advertising masterminds to make stupid decisions. We can vote for Girdy without even hearing from him or being insulted by his plans to legislate cancer out of existence. This is the only site wise enough to pitch Girdy’s candidacy to the general public by virtue of the very Internet that Girdy never claimed to have invented. Our votes should not be squandered on such a shallow objective as electing a candidate who looks like one of us. Vote Girdy because the major parties have it coming!

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