Politics Make Me Sick (or, Why I Haven't Voted in a Single Election To Date)

Seriously. Politics make me feel ill.

The fact that I like Obama aside.....the fact that I lean left aside.....at what point do politics become less about defining and trumpeting the qualities and traits of the prospective candidate and MORE about mud-slinging and jabs at the opponents?? This is the part of the political race where I get pretty disgusted and bow out for awhile.

Giuliani's speech tonight at the Republican National Convention seriously revolted me. Slam, slam, slam Obama, he says this, he's an idiot, blah, blah, blah. The "other guys" are incompetent fools if they actually think they can run the country better than US (-->insert snooty chuckle here<----) Democrats do the same - I'm not saying either party is exempt, but damn it gets REALLY OLD. The piety, the elitism, the one-up-ism....Blegh. If there was a presidential candidate who pledged to NOT sling mud, NOT run campaigns AGAINST the opponent, stay indifferent on the actions/stances/beliefs of his opponent.....in other words: take the high ground. Shut their mouth and campaign away to make themselves appeal to the masses as the next president I would vote for them in a heartbeat for that reason alone. Tell me what YOU can do...not the shortcomings (apparent, supposed, actual, whatever) of your opponent.
The rhetoric....the jokes/criticism of the other side ad nauseum.....I'm done with it for awhile.

Lesser of two evils indeed.