Souring on Peripatetic Hooligans

Have voters in Florida and across the nation begun to sour on the notion of peripatetic candidates and office holders? Let us hope so.

Ever-the-candidate incumbents who travel from place-to-place in the course of their government employment are wandering vagabonds, while claiming deep community sensitivity, knowledge, and respect, who appear to have one common thread: The Higher Calling.

This higher calling usually involves a higher paying position (formal or informal through contracts, grants, and endowments for their private business dealings and those of their immediate and/or extended families) in government. These rootless wanderers talk the talk the media loves to cover and ignorant voters willingly nod their head to, but all the while, the political drifters are carefully stepping on calculated stones to rise higher in the food chain of power, prestige, and money.

This roving band of “concerned citizens” cut their teeth in city councils and school boards then seek county commission or state legislative positions, followed by the regional or state-wide appointment, and then often capstone with election to Congress, where the goodies are so good that too many leave on a stretcher.

In 2010 let us call these vagabonds what they are: Hooligans. Political hooligans are self-serving and highly partisan party supporters whose destructive, cruel, and brutal behavior and measures to succeed have accomplished little if anything in the long-term for “We the People” other than upset the natural ebb and flow of supply and demand in a harmonic world if objectivism was allowed to rein.

It is said that the cream will rise to the top; however, with far too many cows in office, the cream is sour. Like the dairy product, the entrenched do-gooders are fat, fermenting, and full of deliberately induced bacteria.

The time has long since come where votes must be grounded in reality, accept that churning is necessary, that acts have consequences, and ignorance begets the election of peripatetic snake-oil hucksters and hooligans.

Think About It

Update: "The state Commission on Ethics on Friday dismissed complaints against three high-ranking elected officials over their frequent use of state airplanes, including trips involving family members and political activities.The commission said it had no choice but to dismiss the allegations because state law is too vague regarding what would be improper use of state planes.The action clears both leading candidates for governor in 2010, Attorney General Bill McCollum and Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, as well as Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp, a candidate for attorney general." Click here for the full article from the St. Petersburg Times.

Comment: Typical. Go after the low hanging fruit and let the fruit at the top do as they please. For those who want to continue this fight, these gray-zone flights may cause a tax liability issue if brought to the attention of the proper authorieis. Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4, Link 5, Link 6, Link 7, Link 8, Link 9, Link 10, Link 11, Link 12, Link 13, Link 14, Link 15, Link 16, Link 17, Link 18, Link 19, Link 20, Link 21, Link 22, Link 23, Link 24, Link 25, Link 26, Link 27, Link 28.