Up to my ears and fed up with politics

I like covering politics. I like writing about politics.

But at this stage of the game, I've had it.

I've become over-saturated with campaign flyers in my mailbox, attack ads on my television, and campaign banners ads on every single web page I visit.

I know I'm not alone.

Good friends recently posted a Facebook notice:

"If you call us and we ignore you, don't be offended. We're just assuming you're a) a politician, b) a political survey of some sort or c) a telemarketer. Your chances will be better after next Tuesday."

Politicians are a desperate lot. They are desperate for you and me to like them. That desperation grows during the course of an election year, then crescendos in the last few days before voting day.

Tuesday is voting day and the crescendo is deafening. You can't hear the issues for the noise about character right now.

The desperation they show for you to like them is often characterized by efforts for you to dislike the other candidate.

I shouldn't be -- I've been around politics long enough -- but I'm surprised just how vile campaigns can get. And I'm not limiting that comment to one party or another. Democrats, Republicans, Tea Partyers, Tea Baggers, Coffee Filters ... they're all guilt of being politically vile at this point in an election.

And it's made worse, frankly, by the U.S. Supreme Court decision of late last year that says anyone with a wheelbarrow full of money can spend as much as they wish on anonymous attack ads.

It's one thing to be attacked by your opponent. It's quite another to be attacked by some of these organizations about whom you know nothing because they don't have to file anything about themselves with anyone.

Revere America. Crossroads. Commission on Hope, Growth and Opportunity.

Who are these people? You don't know who is standing in the shadows, who the wizards are behind the curtains of these organizations.

It'll end on Wednesday. It'll be safe to go to the mailbox again, turn on the TV again, cruise the web again.

But it'll be shortlived.

The 2012 race for president will crank up soon enough.

You think it was bad this time around? You ain't seen nothing yet. Wait until you see, hear and read the vitriol coming in the next round.