I vote the way I do, because I have to. No one told me I was a republican and many people are telling me I have to be a democrat. There is no party that defines who I am. I don't say I am independent and I think that there are more like me. My fiscal conservatism outweighs my need to be taxed higher and support the layers of bureaucracy that comes with bigger government. I agree with many of the social programs that are needed to support our society and I don't agree with the redistribution of wealth. I am not included in those who are defined as being "RICH" or over $250,000 combined annual income and I want to be. I am for capitalism and free enterprise at its finest. I don't agree with the more you make, the more you should give back and I certainly don't agree with giving back to those who don't give anything (read: who don't pay taxes). I agree with building up our educational infrastructure with sound disbursement of funds and I don't agree with giving illegal aliens access to our state schools and universities. I believe that those who bet on the stock market and lost should suck it up and walk away with their tails between their legs and I believe that giving sub-prime loans that were mandated by government programs were partly to blame for the banking crisis and the other part is just some dumb business practices. I am not upset that these CEO's are escaping with golden parachutes (after all, they were smart enough to have a buyout clause in their contract) and I feel for the everyday worker. I am convinced that Joe the Plumber and Ed the Dairyworker need a break and I am convinced that we need to lower our prices and wages so that we don't import and outsource more (simple laws of supply and demand?). I believe the liberal media is aggressive and has anointed the second coming and the media right is coy and tries to be cute with its quips and barbs at the left (I really believe that they both should stick to reporting weather and sports). I believe Hollywood is trying to have too much of an influence in politics (see this article) and they will shun their own who think differently. I hope that the Hollywood elite (many of whom have actually zero education and a lot of money) will stick to reading scripts and being told what to say and how to think and leave it up to the educated and those who don't show too much emotion as it always gets in the way. I want Sarah Palin to be seen as a mom, the executive of the largest state in the US and actually a smart woman and I think Joe Biden is a dirty old man whose plugs show and mullet gets longer each time he is on television. I think Barry Obama is a very eloquent speaker with little substance and I think Johnny Mac is a poor orator with deep substance. I think experience outweighs passion and passion is needed to win. I think we have come a long way in our fight against racism and if Obama loses it will be the first reason that is given and it will set us back and create much tension across many parts of the US (I can't wait for the polls: 98% of African American voters voted for Obama while only 40% of white voters voted for Obama). I think that our education system is skewing the younger vote to democratic and I think that as these young democrats get older they will make their own decision (liberal at 20, paying taxes at 25, republican by 30). I think that there is little tolerance for conservative views on 90% of our campuses nationwide and I believe that there are closet groups who actually allow for more right leaning views. I want to think that in the next 30 years we may become a multi-party system versus bicameral (impressed?) so that we can have all the needs of our constitutional republic represented and we aren't so binary in our thinking.
I believe in the freedom of speech...that's why I can right this blog.
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