Smarmy

If you live in San Diego and you watch TV, you can't have missed the ads for the two candidates for Mayor.  I've been around for awhile and have seen lots of ads.  But these...these are the worst.  I literally haven't seen one ad that talks about what the candidate will do.  Rather it's all about how extreme the other guy is, how untrustworthy the other guy is, what a terrible life the other guy has led, how the other guy has screwed his fellow man at every opportunity.  Really...we've come to this?

Now don't get me wrong.  I don't like either one of them.  The Dem, Bob Filner, is a retiring Congressman who is owned by the Unions and wouldn't see a new idea if it hit him in the face.  For Filner it's all about kowtowing to the union thugs and the special interest groups.  The Republican, Carl DeMaio, is the ultimate cynic.  You know.  The guy who knows the cost of everything but the value of nothing.  The guy who in school who was always on the outside looking in because he took pleasure in pointing out how smart he is.

But we are down to these two unsavory characters.  So you'd think that one of them would try to convince us (or at least me) that he is worthy.  What are his ideas?  How will he build on what Mayor Sanders has started?  How will he represent all the people?  There are big things to be done.  Infrastructure fixes.  Convention Center.  Waterfront.  Pot holes.  Sewers.  Pension.  Stadium.  Homeless issues.  But no.  It's all about how bad the other guy is.  Disgusting.  Disappointing.  Depressing.