New election motto: No experience needed

You wouldn't hire a plumber who never saw a pipe. Or use a doctor whose only qualification was that he was "sick of doctors."

Yet here we are, on the cusp of Election Day, and by all reports, we are about to elect numerous people who have little or no political experience. In many cases, their lack of experience is their most compelling asset. They hate the status quo. So make them the new status quo!

The question now becomes the one you'd ask that novice doctor as he hovered over you with a scalpel:

"Should we be scared?"

Well, yes and no. Here's the problem. This nation was forged by men who had little or no political experience. Our forefathers. They are heroes. And a certain percentage of our country -- including the much ballyhooed tea party -- wants to replicate those forefathers in 2010.

The problem is ... it's 2010.

We don't have a John Adams or George Washington running. No candidate just broke free from British rule. Sure, the Declaration of Independence folks saw things purely and cleanly. But not because they didn't have years of politics behind them. They didn't have years of politics behind them because didn't have years of politics behind .

But by the time we forged the Constitution, most of the framers were from the Continental Congress, the rest in colonial or state government.

In other words, they didn't just go out, pick a few field workers, and say, "OK, you guys create the country."

Today, we hate politicians. Especially long-term ones. That's the national zeitgeist. (This is silly by the way. There are good and bad politicians as there are good and bad everything else.) But lawmakers who have been around for a while are angrily viewed as old and bad.

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New election motto: No experience needed