re: #423 Scion9

Public office is not synonymous with elections at all. Most ‘public offices’ are completely undemocratic appointees. Regardless, Sheriffs, Judges are often elected. A police sheriff under your definition is a ‘career politician’, in that he gets paid to do a job to which he was either elected or appointed to do on behalf of the public.

Regardless, the discussion is over semantics. A ‘career politician’ evokes a certain quality of political connectedness. An insider, with political clout. A Rumsfeld, or Cheney. It is a criticism, more than a simple statement of fact.

You can apply ‘career politician’ to a lot of people that have technically made a career out of public service rather that be elected or appointed office that don’t warrant the moniker, being that every politician in America is a career politician, as they all get paid for their service.

Ok, I understand how you are looking at it, and my choice of words may have been a little broad.

Ok, I don’t want any old blood period. If we have to throw the baby out with the bath water, some good people, for me, it’s going to have to happen. I don’t trust them anymore.

I want new, grass roots candidates, if the system, the party doesn’t like them, then all the better.

This really is a moot point in a lot of ways for me, since I really think is is broken, and there is not way to change it.

It’s going to become something new, something not good for us, but I don’t really think it will be fixed.

If you have faith in any of the current politicians we have out there, current at a local or national level, then I respect your faith, but it is not mine.