Some More Thoughts About The Coming Election

One thing we have heard about this year (as we have endlessly for the past several elections) is the increasing partisanship in electioneering. Some whiny, mush brain will be interview my Katie Couric on the evening news complaining about how mean the Republicans and Democrats (mostly the Republicans) are being. They will beg and beseech the candidates to get along.

The thing that most people do not realize is that every presidential election in the history of America is fraught with partisanship, name calling, negative attacks, etc. Read a little history on the "friendly" campaign between Jefferson and Adams in 1800. Then there was the "love-fest" in 1860. The fact is simple: it happens in every election.

Really, that is one of the thing that makes our country great. We can disagree and still respect each other. Many countries shoot dissenters.