Election year offers chance for personal reflection

It may only be early March, but by now, most of us should be starting to have concerns about who our choices for president will be when November’s election rolls around.

Let’s take a moment to reflect on the campaign season so far — if “campaign” is the proper word to use.

It’s difficult to refer to any of the Republican debates to this point as “debates,” at least according to Webster’s simple definition of the word, which is “a discussion between people in which they express different opinions about something.” Much of what has transpired as “discussion” on and off the lighted stage consists...