I assert there are much better ways to spend our time in this life than dumping it into someone else's (ever read Co-Dependent No More - anyone?). I've received no answer to the question I've posed to every candidate: If elected, will you propose and follow up on legislation that allows a person to announce their candidacy no sooner than 90 days before election day, that will allow a candidate to hit the campaign trail no sooner than 89 days before election day, and that will allow them to use no more than $10,000 of their own money to campaign without funding from anyone or anything else?

Granted, this means the easily obsessed, multi-tasking, overachieving, type-A personalities would have to find something else to do. That "something else" might be more frightful than this determination to overthrow every form of media and ad space with their brand of "news" and invade every telephone poll that has room for one more nail, but it's worth a try.

It would also mean we'd get 89 days of the real deal. No more months and months of this and then more months and months of that. No more vindictive, hateful holding patterns aimed at keeping a weary public's attention. They'd have to say it and do it or get off the pot, as it were. That's 89 opportunities (not almost 890) to get right to the point instead of engaging in one passive-aggressive litany after another.

With less than three months to get into the White House, who has time to sling barbs? With that, the media's reporting material is cut in half. Hooray, we might actually find out what's going on with the rest of the world.

Who knows, we might even get a candidate out of it we can all agree on - and wouldn't that be something? It'd at least be something else.