We have to create a standardized test that all political candidates must pass before they get their name on a ballot.
Now that Basil Marceaux is not going to be governor of Tennessee, we have to start forcing political candidates to pass the same standardized tests that we place so much stock in for our public school funding. If it’s good enough for our schools, it should be good enough for our congressman, senators and presidents.
It seems like every election cycle now, we have to sit through the latest porn star, ex-child actor, and country bumpkin that decides they want their fifteen minutes in the spotlight. The saddest thing about it is that these people end up getting more publicity than the candidates that have a legitimate chance to do something good.
It’s time we hold the people we trust to run the country to the same standards as our children and public school teachers. Check out Basil Marceaux’s official website. No offense to ignorant, illiterate hillbillies, but if they can’t pass a basic skills test or write an intelligible sentence, they shouldn’t even get their name on the ballot. The problem is that one of these days, one of these people is actually going to get elected, and we’re going to have to deal with the results of it.
So, let’s hurry up and get this thing passed before 2012. We missed our chance ten years ago to avoid the fiasco that was “W.” But maybe if we act now, then we won’t have to sit through another fourteen months of listening to Sarah Palin talk about hockey-moms, shooting wild game from helicopters, and comparing herself to Shakespeare.
