During the lead up to the elections every two years we have a whole series of primaries.  They are held on Tuesdays and sometimes it seems like primary season goes on and on and on.  Perhaps it seems that way because it is that way, the season is very long.  However, I don’t hold much hope of bringing all the primaries under one set of rules and election dates.  It just isn’t going to happen.

As you all should be aware, Today is a Tuesday in an election year.  That means today we have primaries.  The players today will be Alaska, Arizona, Florida and Vermont.  We also have a run off to decide the winners in Oklahoma that for some reason couldn’t be decided when that state had its primary.

Will we see a continuance of incumbents being defeated in record numbers?  What record numbers, you say?  The vast majority of incumbents are winning, you say?  My answer to you is…..exactly.

The press has to have something to talk about and speculate about.  Otherwise they wouldn’t be paid those ginormous amounts of money for their opinions.  So even if they make it up, it seems the only choice we have is to humor them.

It doesn’t seem to matter if you watch Fox or not, all the media has picked up the phantom incumbents are out story.  Republican, Democratic, conservative, liberal doesn’t matter.  If you are an incumbent, you’re toast.

But that isn’t the truth, you say?  My answer to you is…shush up and let’s enjoy the show cause they are going to keep saying it anyway.

Watch the video below and get a real perspective on the truth in this primary season from the best of the press Rachel Maddow.

There is a movement afoot that asks voters to not vote for candidates who receive campaign contributions from BP.  Actually, it goes even farther by saying they will not vote for a politician whose party receives donations from BP unless the politician refuses money from that party.

This is bad news for some politicians, especially some from Texas and the Gulf States.  It could drive them to reconsider their politics and their stands on issues.  It would affect both the Republican and Democratic Party because each receive money from BP as well as other big oil corporations.

Following is the last part of the petition.

THEREFORE, we pledge to BOYCOTT any vote we may have otherwise cast for any candidate for any office who receives campaign funding from BP plc or any subsidiary thereof, or any candidate who has previously received funding from BP and fails to return the unused portion, upon receipt of this petition. If any candidates do receive campaign funding from BP plc or its subsidiaries, we pledge to VOTE for a competing candidate who has not received funding from BP, WRITE IN a candidate of our choosing who has not received funding from BP, VOTE FOR NONE OF THE ABOVE, or ABSTAIN FROM VOTING in protest.

In the case of a POLITICAL PARTY receiving general funding from BP plc, we pledge not to vote for candidates affiliated with this party unless they do not accept funding from their party’s national committee.

You can read the rest of the petition and sign it if you wish at the link below.

Petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/bp2010/petition.html

Now, let’s just see who does the right thing for the voters and for the environment.

I would love to be a fly on the wall and see the look on the faces of the Congress critters when they receive a copy of this petition.  Bet they will turn a little green—just like the swamp frass that once lined the Gulf Coast.