I have been fuming over this one for the past week. The Mitt Romney flack over him being a hunter has exposed a bigger problem in our political system. It doesn’t matter if he hunted 2 times or 1000 times or if he has killed 2 rabbits or killed enough to put them on the endangered species list. What I have a big problem with is the fact this has become some sort of requirement to be President.

While the Republicans are the party of the bigger hunters, they are not the only ones in this “kill to be President” mentality. In 2004 we had John Kerry out there shooting animals to win over the hearts and minds of hunters. I guess it is a good thing that the animals don’t vote.

So how fake are we as a nation? We have to pretend we have these big macho men running for President because they killed Bugs Bunny? For Kerry, it wasn’t good enough he actually killed human enemies in the middle of a war. That didn’t make him man enough, but shooting at some little bird does?

Here is something else to think about on this issue. If acting macho is such a good thing, then how do you explain our situation today? Bush got elected playing mister macho and look at what all that “toughness” has done when it comes to things like Iraq, Katrina, Walter Reed, etc.

If America can not choose their leaders on their actual abilities to make sound decisions, listen to expert advice and lead, then this country does not deserve to be a democracy, or perhaps the whole experiment called “democracy” is failing because the people who choose the leaders are too shallow to weigh their options properly.