Will the last candidate to resign before the federal election please turn off the lights?
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Seriously, the way it's all going it will be a small miracle if there is any candidates left to vote for come March 18.
More candidates bit the dust on Friday after their past views on social media were exposed
"If you want to be a political candidate don't post anything on social media," one person suggested ironically on Twitter about the crisis engulfing candidates.
"No, just don't be a racist bigot," another person contended.
One office wag suggested there were divisions actively working to dig up dirt on opposition candidates from their social media past.
That wag suggested perhaps the dirt units might be better utilised going back over the historic social media posts of their own candidates and hitting the "delete" button to protect them against future attacks.
Friday's social media victims piled up quickly.
The first came when the Liberals were forced to dump Jessica Whelan, the Tasmanian candidate for the seat of Lyons, who was accused of making anti-Muslim comments on social media.
It came only a day after Jessica had been been on the campaign trail with Scott Morrison touring around a major agricultural festival in Tasmania.
Then Labor candidate for the seat of Melbourne Luke Creasey was forced to stand down for a series of offensive social media posts about lesbians and "roughly" taking someone's virginity.
What class of people are these parties endorsing?
Earlier in the week another Labor candidate was forced to quit over anti-Semitic social posts and a Liberal resigned for encouraging conservative Christians to "infiltrate" the party to stop gay people from being elected.
Maybe the problem isn't social media and what people are posting.
Maybe political parties should simply endorse a better quality of human being.