Hey GOP Candidates… You’re doing it wrong.

The primary season had devolved into a joke. There I said it.

While our allegedly conservative candidates are attacking each other from the left on the really important issues of the day – you know, like who has swiss bank accounts or who got paid to be a consultant – the media is giddy over not having to scrutinize the disaster currently in the White House. Presidential elections are supposed to be about contrasts. Specifically, we need to contrast how our way of doing things is better than how Democrats do things.

Are we getting any of that over the course of the last few weeks? No. Has the cause for a conservative view of the role of government been moved forward in the last few weeks? No. Instead, we’re getting a soap opera while the Obama administration is out there pretending they didn’t have full control of the federal government for two years. To their credit, the RNC is out there making the case, but the drama during these idiotic debates is overshadowing it.

It’s time for all the candidates to get on the same page here. ENOUGH!

While Mitt and Newt whine at each other about who loved Reagan more, Obama is out there once again claiming that the “policies of the past” are the reason why we need bigger and bigger government. Where’s the candidate coming out and challenging this ridiculous assertion? Where’s the guy explaining that the financial collapse was the end result of decades of government manipulation and distortion of the mortgage market? (Sidenote: I know Ron Paul talks about this, but he’s never going to win the nomination. Never. And he’s crazy.)

The frontrunners in this race are wasting valuable time right now. They’ve taken their eyes off the long game and in the process are hurting the conservative movement instead of championing it. If they’re causing people like me to be fed up with them, just imagine what it is doing to people looking for an alternative to Obama but who aren’t very ideological or political.

If this nonsense doesn’t end soon, we’re going to have four more years of Obama. We’re going to have the Leftist media telling us that Obama’s victory is a mandate to continue the ruinous path he and his Democrat allies have set this country on.

Does anyone at the campaign headquarters of any of the candidates understand any of this?