LET'S CALL OFF 2016 ELECTIONS: NO GOOD CANDIDATES

LET'S CALL OFF THE 2016 ELECTIONS: LOUSEY CHOICES ONLY DISASTER AHEAD FOR OUR NATION

The presidential election is still a year an a half off and all the people I talk to up here in the Central Greens are fearful and depressed about the coming election. The current crop of potential Presidential candidates and the need to pick a winner from this motley group have them concerned. The candidates who on the Republican side keep poping up like moles in the village green, are almost all lacking in one way or another. On the Democrat side there is only one choice (sorry to say worthy Vermoter Bernie Sanders..he is just blowing wind) she has plotted and schemed to make it that way for a long time and the poor Dems are stuck with her. But she is old, loaded with unsavory baggage and most see her as untrustworthy. Where can a voter go? One of my neighbors had a solution.

On my daily walk down the road by the brook, yesterday, I passed old man Morrisey's place. It was a warm spring day and the old guy, a retired linesman and Vietnam vet who worked for many years for Vermont Power and Light, was perched on his porch in a rocker chair. I called to him from the edge of the roadside, and he waved me in closer.

"Nice weather," I said, resting my hand on his picket fence.
"Ain't so good, that it'll change things much," replied Morrisey grumpily.

Thinking I'd stir the old mans blood circulation a bit, I asked him what he thought about the current crop of candidates getting ready to replace Obama...a man Morrisey always had plenty to complain about.

My query had its desired effect and then some. The old guy struggled up out of the wicker chair and lumbered over to the balustrade close to where I stood.

"Be best for us all if we jest called off them comin' 'lections." he said firmly.

"Call off the elections?"

"Yeah. That's right sonny. And you can tell them in your writin' that you heard it first right her from Jim Morrisey."

"I don't think that a possibility"...I began, but Jim just ignored me, as he ran on with his resoning for this radical skip-election proposal.

"All we got runnin' fer the job are a bunch of far-right kids, still damp from their momma's birthin', who are determined to take the nation back into the 1800s. They jest ain't up to the job. They ain't Presidential". Then its darn embarrassing how they're all beggin' fer bundles of cash from some of these super rich guys and makin' secret promises to these donors too. Who knows what they are givin' away? Then too the lot of 'em run off out west to bow down before that Las Vegas gambling guy and toe his line fer cash. But worse than that, that kid-Wisconsin governor, he even flew out to Israel and bow down to that Netanyahu fella. And what has that guy to do with anythin in the US of A? He ain't even an American!"

Old JM, pUsed to take a deep breath, and looked up to watch a pair of cackling ravens fly by over head.

He began again. "Then, believe it or not, we even got them Bushes in there again. Jeb Bush,he's runnin' now too. Would you belive it? Ain't he got a nerve? He's the guy, who as Florida governor at the time, schemed to give the Florida vote to his idiot brother. That was some kick in the ass for this nation. GW he got 'lected. Then gol darned he wasn't in there long when he when he started this God awful mess in the Middle East! Look what a mess that turned out to be. I read today that them ISIS fellas jest took the city of Remadi from the Iraqis. That was where my young nephew died in 2005 fightin' for no good reason. That JEB is still tight as a clam with the Bush clan. I heard it on TV that he still claims that his brother George did the right thing, invadin' Iraq, killin' half a million innocent Iraqis, sacrifin' nearly five thousand of our kids and costin' us so much we're still repayin' war loans. JEB is now claimin' his bro jest had bad info. But thing is the info was George's info...he made it all up. He made up the whole WMD story and fed it to the American people. and that's not all."

"Hold it, hold on there, JM." I hollered up to him. He was turning as red as a fresh cooked beet. I was afraid he was going to succumb to apoplexy right there on his porch. I warned him. " JM I ain't got all day here, the sun is hot! Is there an end to this story?"

"I jest gotta finish this", he insisted.

"OK, but...."

Jim ignored me again and carried on wheezing a bit. "Bud, that was only one side of the story. On the other side of the political divide in Washington, we got an old hag, who has been takin' money from another bunch of foreign types that want to get the Presidential ear. She and her man, ole "Slick Willy", claim the payouts and donations to the "Clinton Foundaton" are for good deeds and only "speaking fees". But we all know that the dough is for access to her, to power, like when she was Secretary of State. And now that she's a candidate and its a good bet that she might be President one day the powerful and wan'na bes are lining up to throw money at Bill for "speakin' fees". Hey, they cant fool me, those two."

So on the Democrat side we only have "Shillery" Clinton. The Dems just coronated her--no contest. And sure as GOD made little apples, I don't trust that one. She and her husband, if they got a chance, they would be sellin' off the Nation's treasures to the highest bidders. Liddy (my wife) she says ole lady Clinton will sell off the White House silverware if she gets in there. Oh yeah, and if she's elected, how would she control that husband of hers? He'd be sellin' access to the lady President , like a carnival ticket man, to pour money into that phony slush fund "Foundation" of his. What will they possibly do with him to keep him out of the US Treasury (and the panties of every young female in the White House)?"

Every which way I look at it this is a disaster year comin' up. I worried about the nation. My solution is to put off the election till some of them Republican kids grow up and in a year or two old lady Clinton will be dribblin' her oatmeal and be way too old to run for President."

"You finished?" I asked

"Yeah, I guess so," said JM. He appeared exhausted but happy to get that off his chest.

"But we can't wait too long" I said with a wink.

"Why?"

"Chelsea."