"Neo-Con Rep. Todd Young pandering to the titty bar demographic. Shameless. Priceless."

Thanks to T for the photos and the title. Shameless. Priceless. In The Leader? Gads. Did Guido pay for the exposure?

Can intellectual honesty and integrity win a New Albany election...

or are there just too many idiotic straight ticket voters?

We know that both the local Democratic and Republican parties have perennially lacked the gumption to take positions on local issues. We know that as a result, running under their respective banners has no real meaning outside of pandering to the least among us. At the local level, there's simply no way for anyone to self-identify as a Democrat or Republican. There are no stated platforms or even fairly consistent rhetoric or performance records to compare.

Some will suggest that their allegiances are born of support for the national or state parties, but to do so is turn our republic on its decidedly non-pointy head with excrement spiraling down rather than cream being upwardly mobile.

So, the question: Are there enough reasonably intelligent people sufficiently engaged to overcome the pandering and insert some honesty into the process or should potential candidates just resign themselves to tucking their integrity down between the seams of their underpants in order to "win", thus proving that they may not be worth voting for in the first place?