Is the Race for Office just another Reality Show?

I am dismayed by the continual trashing that each of the Republican candidates heap upon each other during their run for the Oval Office. Whatever happened to running a clean campaign based upon what each candidate hoped to achieve while in office. The sad truth is, clean campaigns are not interesting and do not gain attention of 'We The People' any longer.
Today's tv is rife with what we refer to as reality tv. This is no more than gossip and mudslinging tv where everyone is out to get each other from the beginning. I used to watch the show called Survivor and I was wrong to do so. It was a show where a group of individuals were put on a secluded wilderness spot without much in the way of equipment and necessities, and then told to survive. Only they were each competing for money. Whoever was the lone survivor would get $1million dollars. America loved it. It was an inspiring show and nothing more than a late night soap opera of who was cheating with who and who was going to stab their 'friends' in the back so that they could win. After all, winning is everything and 'it was only a game' were the 'reasons' that the individuals always touted as forcing them to give in to lying and cheating to win. I mean it was $1 million dollars. Now wait, whatever happened to the Golden Rule, you know 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you' not the current one that states 'he who has the gold makes the rules' or 'do unto others before they do unto you.' What you must ask yourself is what is my soul worth? Is it worth more than $1 million dollars? To many of the contestants on Survivor the answer was NO.
Now we turn to the candidates running for office, are they selling their soul for a chance to be King for 4 years. Yup, it has a nice ring to it...KING. I am President of the United States of America. Wow, that used to mean something. Today, that position does not mean as much. We have allowed our own greed and vice to become involved in taking care of our people so much so that acquiring this position does not mean what it used to. Our Creator gave each man the right to the pursuit of his happiness and freedom; to choose whom he will serve as a Lord and Master. Yet, we the people have given our freedoms to choose away in order to 'ensure' our own lazy greed and vices. So all the men running for this office have to do is 'promise' to fulfill those same wants and desires and we elect them our King for 4 years. Then when that same man fails to fulfill all our expectations (deliver the exaggerated promises he made) we are angry and upset. Is there any wonder that each candidate slings mud and opens all the closet doors of the other candidates while trying to hide his own failings? His only objective, the same as the contestants on Survivor, is to win! It does not matter who gets hurt. It does not matter if what is said is totally true or not. Winning is everything. 
But our Lord in heaven does not look at these outward things. He looks to our hearts. He wants us to love and respect Him, and with that comes love and respect for others. Jesus said to the scribes and pharasees that the Greatest Rule of all was to love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind and soul. But did not stop at that. He then continued with the second was to 'love your neighbor as yourself'. How then are these same men who tell half truths and lies about each other, and all for the desire of an elected office, glorifying our Lord? I say they are not and that we are just as wrong for encouraging them to act this way. Huh? Now that hits home. Yet it is truth. These same individuals employ marketing groups to determine what 'we the people' desire and want most in each electoral district and then that candidate overwhelms us with promises of exceeding those wants and desirs. We watch reality tv and read smut magazines that deliver all the latest gossip on celebrates and heros, hoping to get a glimps of the 'good life' or watch as someone else experiences the same pains as we are so we feel less of a failure. The News is innundated with such stories now instead of truth and things of hope. So how can we expect less from our men running for office?
Until we have a shift of values and morales that will return us to days of truly caring for others and placing other's welfare before our own we will not truly experience a change in our political representatives. They are a product of our own making. I will leave you once again with this, my Grandfather drilled into me this simple but true phrase, "Son, the government and other men can take most everything else away from you, but they cannot take your integrity/honesty. YOU have to give that away." Choose today whom you will serve, God or money/power/position/etc., as for me I choose my heavenly Father.