Helene (the Discriminating wife) and I are in Charleston for a couple of weeks. We came for the food and weather, not the South Carolina primary, but the primary has been pervasively present. Several observations:
- The TV ads are constant, one after the other, and they are virtually all negative.
- The negative attacks (Liar! Liar! Unfit! etc.) are so depressing that I find it difficult to understand how anyone who paid any attention to them could vote for ANY Republican. Anyone who thinks this sort of “competition” among the Republicans is a Good Thing is delusional.
- The only ads that are not negative attacks are for various medicines or health aids. It’s as though everyone here is sick or suffering from something.
