Look at the race for Governor. Among the contenders was Melody Damayo, a former porn star. She claimed to know best how to satisfy voters. She appealed to tax payers who are tired of getting screwed and feel they're not getting enough bang for their buck. "She promised, "the bare and honest truth".

Also seeking top billing in the Governor's house was GOP Lt. Governor Lorraine Hunt, a former lounge singer. Unable to find the right political note, she, too, was tuned out by voters.

State senator Bob Beers, frustrated that Congressman Jim Gibbons wouldn't debate him publicly, instead confronted a cardboard cutout on TV of Representative Gibbons. Apparently the cutout won. Beers, too, was rejected by voters.

The Democrats saw college professor Dina Titus punish her opponent Henderson Mayor Jim Gibson for his consistent conservative support of the Bush Administration. Using a close-up of an Elephant's ass, she declared him a closet-Republican.

Democratic primary winner Titus then fired the opening shot in the fall Governor's race charging that the GOP candidate, Jim Gibbons, apes President Bush. Not one to monkey around, Gibbons accused his opponent of being a Liberal. In Nevada, that's like being called a leper.

Jack Carter, the former President's son, won the Democratic nomination for the Senate. He wasted no time in revealing his strategy will be to stick his opponent Senator John Ensign with the Bush tar-baby. Carter points out that Ensign voted with the President 96% of the time. But Jack! The guy IS a Republican!

Carter, who's only lived in Nevada three years, is trying to sell himself as a homeboy. He says Ensign is practically a White House mouse. Carter boasts, "As a Senator, the people I'm going to be dealing with are going to be people who don't live in Nevada." Just what Nevada needs, a guy who's new to the state and considers never having lived here to be a big asset!

Assemblywoman Sharron Angle took on Secretary of State Dean Heller for the GOP nomination for the House from the Second District (vacated by Gibbons to run for Governor). "Right" Angle campaigned hard against illegal aliens. A very close race, she's estimated to have lost because she alienated Star Trekkies.

There's more! Kathy Augustine, candidate for state treasurer, received 18% of the vote, despite having passed away weeks ago! Several candidates for state offices, including state treasurer, had previously filed for bankruptcy!

GOP candidate for Lt. Governor Brian Krolicki accused his opponent Barbara Lee Woolen of profiting from porn because equipment leased from her rental company was used in the making of porno films. That's a bit like accusing parents of creating children for the pleasure of pedophiliacs! Yet, Krolicki doesn't have any problem becoming Lt. Governor of the only state in the Union that legalizes and taxes prostitution.

Former President Ronald Reagan, Republican icon, would understand Krolicki. Afterall, it was Reagan who confessed, "I used to say politics was the second oldest profession. I've come to know it bears a gross similarity to the first."

Nevada politics is a cabaret, old chum! It's vaudeville! It's got sin, sex and silliness. It's a comedy, a tragedy, a tempest in a tea pot. But it's ours. So, when they say what happens here stays here, be glad it does.