You can't escape them unless you turn off the TV. One after another, with barely enough time for commercials hawking adult diapers and a cure for toe fungus, they come. They are repetitious and annoying.

One candidate promises to lower gas and grocery prices and criticizes the incumbent for not doing so (as if politicians can control the market). Another candidate sits on a toilet and the ad calls for his socialist opponent to be "flushed." Still another speaks of improving education. We are already spending record amounts on education so what's the point?

None of the ads I've seen speak of school choice, which is growing across the country. Not one ad promises to lower the $40 trillion debt or reform Social Security and Medicare, which are projected to run out of money by late 2032.

Few of these ads are positive or uplifting. No "morning in America" ads like Ronald Reagan ran in 1984. No, this is "mourning for" America. It's depressing. These people can't possibly live up to their promises. If the........

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