U.S. Senate candidates

So far this year we seem to be having some very interesting candidates on both sides of the aisle running for the senate.
On the democrat side we have a candidate in Connecticut that has talked about his career in Vietnam even though he never left the shores of the United States. This should not be a surprise as he would not be the first politician that talks about a military career that never took place. If we just go back to the previous president he has never been able to justify where he was during his period as a reserve pilot. So this seems to be the ordinary, not the unusual, thing with politicians. They like to take credit for stuff that they never did.
Let’s turn to the republican side and look at some of their candidates.
In Utah a conservative incumbent that had supported the bailout of the banks proposed by President Bush was voted out. In his place a tea party choice was elected to run as candidate next November.
In Kentucky Rand Paul, a libertarian, was elected in the primary. He is also a choice of the tea party movement. The interesting part of this is that Mr. Paul, right after the primary, starting stating his points of view, which are not in the mainstream of the country. He says that if he would have had to vote for the Civil Rights Act in 1964 he would have voted for most of it, except for the fact that private business cannot discriminate who walks through their doors. This is a fundamental condition as African Americans were denied entrance at privately owned businesses such as Wolworth. Mr. Paul compares this part of the bill to the idea that owners are entitled to decide if customers can bring guns to a privately owned business.
This comparison makes absolutely no sense at all, as he is comparing gun possession with race discrimination. Other senators are now saying that he was very naive with the “liberal media”, and that he is not a professional politician, so he needs coaching.
Nevada has also an unusual candidate. Sue Lowden said that we should be able to reduce health care by bartering. She made a statement that said that we should be able, like in the past, to barter with doctors by given them chickens. First she stood by her statement and then, at the last debate, she said that she was not standing by it, and that she had been taken out of context. I really admire her point of view, but I don’t think that my doctor would accept bartering. I don’t chickens or painting her house or office is going to do the trick.
Now republicans say that Blumenthal, the Connecticut democratic candidate for senate, and his “misspeaking” about is role in Vietnam, and Ron Paul’s idea of doing away with part of the Civil Rights Act are the same. I have to disagree because the Civil Rights Act has served us well for almost half a century, allowing the same rights to African Americans that the white population have enjoyed since the founding of this nation. The Vietnam conflict has been over for over 30 years. It left nothing but bitterness and pain, 58 thousand Americans dead, over 1 million Vietnamese dead, and a memorial on the Washington DC Mall.
I’m not going even include in this comparison the Nevada candidate because she must live in a different world than the rest of us. I don't think I have to add anything to what she has already said.
Let’s hope that people at the voting booth can vote for the USA and not for the divisions that have had a stronghold on our government for the many years.