God help us...

You know, I’m not really a political person. I’d have to say that this presidential election has been more interesting to me than others in the past; however, it’s things like this that really catch my attention in politics.  Basically, Kentucky has a good likelihood of elected a nut job to the senate, or, rather, keeping a nut job in the senate.  They have basically set up a debate with Jim Bunning and Daniel Mongiardo which can not be shown live on TV, can not have an audience, and Mongiardo can’t use anything Bunning says against him later.  Let’s see, off the top of my head I’d say that Bunning’s campaign is afraid that he’ll say something that will let everyone see that he’s lost his marbles.  If I was Mongiardo I would refuse such demands on a debate and hold a “forum” instead.  Have this forum live on TV and answer questions that would have been asked in the debate.  Publicly announce the forum and state that if Sen. Bunning would like to show that would be great, but if he doesn’t that’s fine too because Mongiardo will still get his side of the issues out.

I guess what I’m really afraid of is that people won’t realize Bunning isn’t firing on all thrusters and he gets re-elected.

On a side note: the picture of Bunning at the link above just made me think of hearing Monks in the background singing gothic like chants and him speaking about the end of the world.  Either that or he is talking about the size of the fish he caught the day before.