The Democrat running against Senator John McCain in Arizona is airing campaign ads that spotlight the cowboy, er, cowgirl, boots she wore in her youth.

McCain is airing an ad that claims that his opponent walked out of a constituent meeting (sans cowgirl boots) when she didn't like questions about her support of ObamaCare.  The commercial goes on to say that McCain didn't walk out of the Vietnam POW camp where he was held captive.   

No discussion of issues.  No real solutions to what ails the country.  Just silly posturing and appeals to voters' childlike emotions.

Chimpanzees are more careful about their choice of alpha male.  

It's probably similar with local races in your state.  It's certainly similar with respect to the presidential race.

McCain's ads don't mention that McCain had abruptly walked out of his first marriage (to a woman who had cancer) to marry a beer baroness.  Her father, a shady beer distributor in Arizona, gave McCain a no-show job so that he could travel the state in advance of running for Congress. 

McCain's commercials also don't mention that the senator didn't walk out of a meeting that he should have walked out of—namely a meeting with the crooked real estate developer, Charles Keating.  The purpose of the meeting was to discuss a quid pro quo of taking campaign contributions in exchange for weakening savings and loan regulations.  The weakening triggered the S&L crisis of the late 1980s, resulting in half of the savings and loans in the nation going bankrupt.

Then there was the meeting that McCain never should have had.  That would be the meeting with bigwigs at the Arizona Republic newspaper to sit on a story for a couple of days about McCain's second wife Cindy stealing drugs from a nonprofit to feed her drug habit.  Amazingly, the bigwigs agreed to sit on the story.

Let's switch to the candidate who wants to be the county recorder for Maricopa County, Arizona, which is one of the largest counties in the nation in terms of geographic area and population.  Why should we vote for him?  Well, according to his ads, we should vote for him because he was in the Marine Corps.

Don't Marines blow things up and kill people?

Based on those criteria, I'm qualified to be the county recorder, as I was an artillery captain in the U.S. Army.

I'm also qualified to be a foreign policy expert.  After all, McCain is seen as one because he was a captain in the Air Force—as if flying a fighter jet makes one an expert in history, foreign affairs, and military strategy.  He is seen this way in spite of his foreign policy disasters and belligerence.  To wit, you might recall the time he chanted "Bomb, bomb Iran."  Imagine if Donald Trump were to do the same. 

It's hard to believe, but there are even worse candidates in Arizona (and the nation).  For example, the Republican Sheriff of Pinal County thinks he's qualified to be in Congress.  He's right.  He is not only a big enough hypocrite and liar to be in Congress, but he has the added qualification of being insecure in his masculinity, as evidenced by his shaved head, the large tattoo on his bicep, and his preening in his tight-fitting uniform.  This is the same sheriff who railed against illegal immigration while having a gay affair with a Mexican illegal.  To top it off, he had moved to Arizona from Massachusetts, where he had run a private school and was accused of engaging in funny business with students.

Meanwhile, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is running for reelection.  He's one of the wiliest politicians in America.  He's also one of the most narrow-minded, uneducated, self-aggrandizing, inarticulate, and greasy-haired politicians.  He makes me ashamed to share his Italian heritage.  Maricopa County taxpayers are going to be on the hook for the tens of millions of dollars that it will cost to defend him in court on charges that he willfully violated civil liberties after being told by the feds to cease and desist. 

How are voters going to respond?  They are going to reelect him, which will be a de facto referendum on their collective IQ.

Sheriff Joe's opponent has his own issues.  His wife had called the cops about purported domestic violence but later recanted.     

It's no better in New York State, the home of former congressman and current pervert Anthony Weiner, who is married to an ethically-impaired top aide to Hillary Clinton, who also is married to a guy who can't control his wiener.

How do these sleazes find each other?  SleazeMatch.com?

It's just as bad across the Hudson River in New Jersey, where former Democrat Governor Jon Corzine was fined but didn't go to prison, as he deserved, for ripping off the clients of his investment business.  

Clearly, the best and brightest and most ethical don't go into politics, an obvious fact that is reinforced by the crackpot and crook running against each other for the presidency.

And what do we minions do about this?  We cheer the liars and scoundrels at rallies, we fall for their propaganda, we follow them over the cliff, we send our kids to die in foolish wars that they start, and then we erect statues in their honor.

What we should be doing instead is giving all of them the boot.  Come to think of it, that's a good reason to vote for McCain's opponent.  She already has the boots.