Primary Scream

Today is Primary Day.

And the question is...what is the primary motivation of most, if not all, of our political leaders?

These folks claim to care about the "issues" and the constituents they hope to represent.

But what seems to be increasingly more apparent is that they care only about their own egos, wallets and legacies.

I challenge them as follows:

Since the majority of the people who live in your district probably have an annual yearly income that is much less then yours and their net worth is probably much less then yours why don't you spend a couple of weeks being the husband (or wife) of one of the families in your district? Live as these people do. Get up early, get the kids off to school, go to a boring job, worry about balancing a family budget, comparison shop at the grocery store, redeem coupons and cans, drive the kids around, make dinner or clean up afterwards, read to your kids or play catch, listen to your spouse complain, justifiably, when you're too tired for sex and be up late with vapid TV shows while you fret about how you'll make the mortgage payment and health premium.

You do that and you'll have my vote. Republican, Democrat, Tea Partier. Whoever...

Because then I'll know you know what it's really like. Otherwise you're just another pontificating windbag millionaire full of disdain sitting on the other side of the gate...until, of course, the gate is crashed by the unhappy hordes completely misunderstood and neglected by the ruling political, clueless class.

What was it that Marie Antoinette was reported to have said...?

Gluten this...!