Election 2018

I loved Curt Schilling when he was wearing a Red Sox uniform

I loved him even more when his actual sock turned red

My love peaked for him in 2007

I noticed him again in maybe 2010/2011

I don't really remember when it was...whenever he returned as a baseball analyst

I truly enjoyed listening to him talk about baseball

He loves the game

He knows the game

And he respects the game

But, I do not like listening to him talk about anything else

I did not like listening to him talk about 38 Studios

Maybe because I don't understand the whole gaming world culture

Or maybe because he seemed to take advantage of some folks and his status here in New England

I did not like listening to him about politics

He started to get rabid and sometimes, said things that I just had no idea how to process or interpret

He started to make Glen Beck look placid

I especially did not like when he took to posting on Twitter and Facebook some taunts and twits about things that were just so out of line they made even me cringe

I say even me because not only do I lack a social filter I am also admittedly prejudice....which by the way I think we all are to some degree its just that I own mine

I mean really, being prejudice is, by definition, a feeling of like or dislike for someone or something especially when it is not reasonable or logical

So one can be prejudice not just against something or someone but for something or someone.....we seem to also forget that last part there...

Anyway, I digress and that is a conversation for another time and another place

Today, what caught my eye was the headline Curt Schilling to run for Senate seat against Elizabeth Warren (if his wife says it's okay...not part of the headline but certainly part of the sub title)

I'm not an Elizabeth Warren fan

Though I respect some of the stances she has taken (suck it Wall Street), I am not a Warren fan/supporter

But when I read that headline (and I swear, we've read it before in year's gone by) my blood ran cold, I got a little dizzy and I may or may not have laid my head down on my desk for five solid minutes trying to regroup

Its because I love voting

I love the polling place

I might be the only person who even looks forward to the off year elections

But this Presidential Election Cycle (and there is nothing presidential about this cycle given all the shenanigans going on) has been ruined for me

And now there prospect of the off year election being ruined has me even more distraught than I already am

Schilling v Warren would be, in my head, so similar to Trump v Clinton that my head and heart would potentially explode

Our forefather must be spinning in their graves

Or perhaps laughing at us

Maybe both

I sort of wish Jack Bauer were real...he'd know how to fix this