Fasten your seatbelts, boys and girls, we are about to embark on the most divisive, assaultive and malicious political campaign in American history. It will also be the most expensive.
Whatever your political affiliation, whatever one of hundreds of passionate causes you embrace, this election season will be both virtual and geographic ground zero for making one’s voice heard. The objective as always will be to make the message attract as much media and Internet attention as possible.
Above all, running for the office of President of the United States in today’s climate requires a massive ego, a “skin” impervious to criticism, a quick response tongue, a willingness to be intellectually stripped down to total transparency in today’s sliced and diced universe of information, and a fearless and courageous inner core. A partial affliction of madness helps.
Watching the Republican candidates submit themselves to the withering and excruciating debate process seems an exercise in self-flagellation. Indeed, it is easy to offer an unkind assessment of these people willing to take the plunge and expose themselves to this process, but then, nobody is twisting their arm and they should know what to expect.
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