If you had been a fly on the wall at Linda and Steve’s house last week when Dan and Laurie and I came for dinner, this is some of the silly (or not so silly) discussion you might have overheard.
About the ridiculous amount spent on political campaigns in an attempt to “buy” the election or slur the other candidate:
Judy says, “No candidate should be able to spend any money on campaigns. Radio and TV stations should provide an equal amount of time for each candidate to state their beliefs and platforms and that is it!”
Linda added, more entertainingly: “I think that they should make every election into a reality series. What American could resist watching Obama and Romney swap wives? I would have loved to have seen Michelle chew Mitt’s ass in twenty different ways. Or, determine the election by means of duels. Every single election, you’d get rid of 50 percent of the politicians.”
Judy: “What about survivor? You put them all together, naked, on an island with only the amount of health care they support for the masses to come to their aid in case of snake bite, sunburn or heart attack.
Dan and Laurie: “Or make it an amazing race. Put “I support gay marriage” on their bumper sticker and send them through the deep south. Or “The Earth is Flat” through California.
I lost track of who said this: “Or, create a bumper sticker that would make them all face a similar risk no matter where they go: Nuke a Gay Whale for Jesus–and see how adept they are at getting out of difficult situations.”
Okay viewers, a challenge. What sort of reality show would you like to suggest for political candidates to prove their mettle?
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lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Put ’em all in a reality show where they each think they’ve been diagnosed with terminal cancer and see what opinions they have on their last days :p. Too mean?
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But…give them the same alternatives as run-of-the-mill Americans re/ health care.
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A Big Brother format. Lock them up together for the campaign season and let us watch live feed. 🙂
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See who sneaks out at midnight to eat all the peanut butter.
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And who scrubs the toilet with somebody else’s toothbrush.
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Man, I might actually understand politics if it went like that!
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We all might see the “real” side of candidates. (Much as I dislike reality programs.) Nah, they’d probably just rehearse everything!
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How about they get to question each other… using a lie detector test? A duek worth hearing and seeing?
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You’d get better candidates and ideas like this…
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