Posted by
Mr. H on Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:32:46 PM
One of my favorite movies from the 80's is an old Richard Pryor movie called "Brewster's Millions." I was thinking about the major problem of this year's presidential election and thought about this movie and an idea from it that I would love to see implemented. It could never work in our political climate, and would throw the election into the hands of the House of Representatives, but it would be a lot of fun to watch.
In the movie, Brewster has 30 days to spend 30 million dollars but can have nothing to show for it at the end. One of the ideas given to him is that it is expensive to run for public office, and the New York City mayoral election campaign is going on and that he could run for it to spend lots of money quickly. Brewster starts a campaign, and instead of putting himself up as the candidate, he encourages the people to vote for "None of the Above".
Oh that someone with the money could start a campaign like this. Imagine millions of Americans in November requesting paper ballots to write in "None of the Above" with a chance of actually making a difference. I am sorely tempted to do it unless McCain shows me something amazing compared to what he has done so far.