Choices this election are shameful

Published 12:42 am Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Millions of Americans will head to the polls today — dubbed Super Tuesday — to cast their votes in party primaries to select presidential nominees.

Sadly, this year’s race has seemed anything but super, let alone presidential. Shameful is the best word that comes to mind.

Clearly, America is no longer on the top of its game and perhaps nowhere does that become clearer than in the political spectacle unfolding before our eyes.

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The people who should be our best and brightest rip one another to shreds before a national audience to gain popularity through short sound bytes and low jabs.

Americans from all walks of life want things to change. We want our country in its prime again, but if the handful of candidates who are leading the polls and expected to win in today’s primaries are our best shots, Lord help us all.

Political debates — particularly on the Republican side of things — have spiraled down into yelling matches in which candidates become fifth-grade boys hurling insults.

The Democrats are not immune to the insanity either. One of their top candidates is a self-professed Democratic socialist.

We have hate-mongering bullies going against socialists.

Is it possible our nation can see through all the childish shtick and elect an adult who can lead the country with charisma and principles instead of hate or handouts?

One candidate repeatedly shouts his plan — which utterly lacks any specifics — to “Make America Great Again” we all want to believe it’s possible.

And it is. But to make America great again, we have to start by having some self-respect and treating Americans — all Americans — as members of a great nation and return to our capitalist, free enterprise and faith-focused foundations.