As I watch these so-called debates, I can’t help but wonder…..

Do candidates really think we are so monumentally gullible? We 21st Century voters have better access to information and fact-checking resources than ever before. Lies are exposed in minutes.

And this being so, do these career politicians, so accustomed to bending reality to suit their agendas, not understand that the first one to run a painfully truthful campaign could earn a landslide win? I feel utter revulsion when I watch Romney’s 1994 campaign where he assured the people of Massachusetts he would defend Roe v. Wade, and a woman’s right to choose because it’s what his mother did, then hear him say he couldn’t do that anymore and expect to be elected as a GOP candidate. I want a politician who doesn’t just do the politically expedient thing. I want one that is honest about his feelings and his failings.

It may seem like I’m picking on Romney, but as a challenger, he was in a position to run an unprecedentedly clean, truthful campaign. Instead, we got “we will not allow our campaign to be dictated by fact-checkers”.

Or by facts at all, apparently……