I am not a very politically minded person. I don't base my decisions upon what my party believes. I go on my gut and align myself with those areas that I firmly believe will be the better outcome for myself, my family, and the country. I am a republican, have been all my life. Was there one defining moment that made me this way? Not really, more of a series of events persuaded me to believe what I do and think the way I think.
I don't hate the democratic party. I don't by into the whole stigma that if you're a democrat you don't believe in God. I don't think that all democrats are evil and that their way of thinking is evil. Truth be told, my wife is a democrat. It really hasn't effected our marriage because of this fact. In fact, I do share some of the ideas and values that the democratic party favors such as gun control, role of the federal government, and foreign policy. Where we disagree is abortion, marriage, and states rights.
There are things about the republican platform I believe and others that make me sick. I am not an elitist. I don't believe I am better than anyone who thinks differently than I do. That does appear to be the present thoughts of the GOP. I don't think that Democrats are the way of the devil. I don't agree with them on a lot of issues, but I don't believe that they would run us into the ground. I do share the Republican views on marriage and abortion, that marriage is a respected institution that must be upheld, and I don't believe that abortion should be something that you can just do. In fact, I am against it all together.
What ticks me off the most about the world of politics is how many in politics think the rest of us are stupid. Explain it to me, I'll catch on, so will the rest of us. Stop trying to sound like you're out for our best interests, and actually be out for our best interests. I'm talking to you: members of congress and the man that is called our president. I think the biggest reason I am not a democrat is because of Barack Obama. He has single-handedly taken what the framers of this great nation had in mind for the presidency and turned it into his own personal totalitarian regime. Remember people, this is my opinion. You are all perfectly within your right to support him and like him, just as I am perfectly within my right to disapprove and go against everything he stands for.
I have never seen a more ego-centric man sit in the white house leading this nation like him. He clearly has no connection to the pulse of America and doesn't care what the will of the people is. He says he hears it, but then goes against it altogether, as was the case of his wonderfully designed and appreciated health care ultimatum, er I mean bill.
The Republicans didn't do much better the last time out with McCain and Palin. I wasn't wild about either of them being the leaders of our country either. He didn't seem to have a grasp on the pulse of America either and she didn't seem to a grasp on reality.
I am waiting for this great nation to be one nation again, where politics isn't a curse word and people who are elected to high office treat that office with respect and dignity. I would love for Americans to feel that their leaders hear them and act according to their wishes and desires.
It seems to me, and maybe it's just me, but I hope it's not, that the political parties are simply choosing what they seem to be the lesser of two evils. That mediocrity and average will be enough for the hard working people of America. I want my country back. I want my leaders to stand up and do their job. Remember what is law and enforce it, not tear down and go against what one state does because it won't. Support your states! Great work Arizona, you have my support and I don't live there.
Remember, all of this is my opinion, it is not intended to raise arguments or to anger people. I did attack both parties and lift both parties. I am just tired of this trend where we have come to expect less and less from each other and our leaders and I for one would like to see that trend come to an end. Give me one nation that favors the will of its citizens over that of the desires of the law breakers and maybe I'll sing a different tune.
This is your opportunity Mr. Obama to do something great for the country, not your ego. A lesson I learned from President Nixon, "Greatness comes not when things are good, but greatness comes when you've taken some knocks, some defeats, some disappointments, when sadness comes, because only when you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know, how magnificent it is, to be on the highest mountain."
Until next time
P
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