Just to let you know, "Gospel of the New Truth" is my new blog title. The blog will first be published in a few days, and the address will be posted here.

But back to the subject of the current primary elections. Now I've had an interest in politics for about fifty years, and was elected to a lower office a couple of times. In those days, keeping in personal touch with the voters was a pretty important task, because you were able to help those people with their - to them - not so insignificant problems. Although you were not yet in office, the local political party supporting you could - and did - make you look good in the eyes of your future constituents. That's not to say things were easy - opponents were not worried about spreading last-minute lies about their opposition candidates, and other not so subtile tricks were employed by both political parties (independents and other groups didn't count for much).

But this year, following politics is a real pain in the rear end. Politics is entertainment, and treated as such by all the pundits an commentators in both print and television. Over and over again, the same points are brought up for discussion, and discussed by panels of so-called experts who have to keep coming up with some kind of comments to justify the time spent and whatever they may paid to appear or write.

As a disclosure, I changed over from being a registered Democrat to Republic following Carter's election as President. Not that I was totally enamoured of Republican policies - I just found them, at times, to be less annoying than those promoted by the Democrats (not in every instance, however). I reckon that these days I'm what would be considered a moderate Republican

The problem is, why should we give a damn about how Hillary Clinton laughs or claps her hands, or how Obama puts on a fake accent, or how many times Rudy's been married? Running the country is, in the best sense of the word, a job for a professional politician. That means, whoever is elected, has to know how to keep this country safe and secure, how to do what's good for all the people, and how to to make as many people as possible believe he or she is "on their side". In other words, we need a strong, dedicated person who understands the basic concept of this nation, and who can have the guts to expain to the nation, and.do what's right for this nation.

Perception is extremely important - not only for we Americans, but for the rest of the world. We need a President who will meet the perception of strength and intelligence, and who actually perform  that paradigm.