Are you vetting or betting?

Indiana is burdened with a very early primary race.  May 4th is so early that many campaigns cannot get going strong with funding and get their messages out to the voters, so that means the onus is on US.  That is you and that is me.

Some people decide to sit out the primary races because they do not want to be labeled "Democrat" or "Republican."  Many independent voters just let the primaries play out and the vote for the best person, or the lesser of two evils, such as the case may be in the fall elections.

True, there is some risk involved in primary voting, as the Board of Elections will keep track of your vote (not specifically, but generally as one side or the other).   For instance, many conservative voters who registered and voted as Democrats in 2008 so that they might block the candidacy of the Socialist Barack Obama with the somewhat more moderate choice of Hilary Clinton then found their efforts to run as Republicans in Porter County were challenged. 

Politics is a dirty business.  My mother warned me just yesterday about that and I reminded her that, when I was interning for an engineering firm I had to go down manholes and walk around in and sometimes build dikes or set up monitoring equipment in, well, water containing feces.   I reminded her about having to get into dirty places to do important work and she agreed that someone has to do it.  I just put on my rubber boots and rubber gloves and got the job done!

What is my point?  My point is that, if you check out candidates in the primaries and vote for the best available man or woman, you are VETTING the candidates and finding the best possible people right out front.   If you do nothing the most well known name or the one with the most money from the higher-up muckety-mucks will win.  But you do your job, vet the candidates and go vote for them then you may get a good one out of the murky waters of the campaign.

If you wait until November to vote for the two candidates that got picked for you, you are BETTING that a good one will be there.  Do you really want to trust the elephants or donkeys to do your job for you?

That being said, here is another opportunity to know your candidates Lake County people should attend if they can:

The St. John Republican Central Committee is hosting a Republican candidate MEET and GREET; Republican candidates running for Federal, State, County and Local races have been invited. All candidates for the United States 1st Congressional District have been invited to attend.

Date: Saturday, April 24, 2010

Time: 8am to 1pm

Location: 1515 W. Lincoln Highway (US 30), Schererville, IN 46375
Next to Paragon Restaurant on Route 30.


I urge you to vet your candidates and vote in the primary!!!