OK this is honestly my first political post and I may get hammered for it as republicans are not in vogue at the time. To me though it is because we (the average guy republicans) are just as mad as the most left leaning democrat at our own party at this time.
Let me be clear on one thing before I go on, I am not really a republican because I don’t give a damn what anyone does in their personal life so long as it does not harm others. So if you want to for instance marry your gay life partner my view is go ahead why do I care, in my view the government does not belong in the marriage business anyway. Marriage is between two people and god not two people and a congressmen or governor anyway.
Most accurately I am a libertarian, which if you know anything about libertarianism you know that means I hate taxes and want them all cut. I think poor people pay to much tax and rich people pay to much tax. Tax the rich to give to the poor is completely asinine in my opinion and does far more harm then good. Libertarians want less government all around, we want the government out of peoples business and expect people to solve their own problems, not wait for the government to help them out.
Now a lot of people ask me why I tend to vote republican, my answer is simply because most of what I just laid out is what the republican party is supposed to stand for. Republicans are supposed to cut taxes and cut spending, instead they spend more and give small income tax cuts and then back end you with other taxes. They are supposed to be for less government then turn around and create bigger government then the democrats have.
Now what is my alternative, vote democrat? Really? The democrats that look me strait in the face, promise to spend more and raise taxes and keep their word! No thanks, not this boy, I ain’t giving up my guns or my right to hunt and fish nor do I wish to cowtow to the world over global warming with Kyoto (which would just be a crippling global tax on America)
What I want to know is where the republicans have gone? Who are we going to get as a republican nominee for president? McCain? Want to know what he thinks you better ask him now the guy flip flops enough to make John Kerry look like a rock! Romney? Seems like the great conservative hope at the moment right? No dice go to YouTube and watch him debate Ted Kennedy in 1992, it is hard to tell which one is the democrat! Rudy? The guy is a leader and he has star power but how can the great republican hope be a guy who is willing to trample the 2nd amendment and is for socialized medicine?
I am just fed up with every politician on the planet! I think the best think every American could do is throw away any hope in your party be you an elephant or donkey. What I think we need to do on both sides of the isle is fire all of them in the primaries! Problem is we don’t care enough as a population. We don’t vote in primaries! Fire them in March folks, it may be the only hope the republican party has left! Hell you guys that vote democrat could benefit from the same process!
Who knows if the jerks on both sides of the isle continue to screw us with taxes, screw up immigration law and generaly ignore what the average American wants, perhaps one day the libertarian party can actually make a run of it? Honestly if you see a real difference between the republican and democrat sides of the senate and house today (with a few individual exceptions) you are only kidding yourself. The modus operandi for both sides is clear, screw over the people, grow government and tax everyone as much as you can. The only thing that changes it the method by which it is done.
So where are the real Republicans? The ones that actually stand for what the party claims to stand for? Hell for that matter where are the real democrats? I think if Franklin Roselvelt, Teddy Roselvelt, Ike Eisenhower and Abe Lincoln went to Washington today, they would all take turns beating the hell out of just about every damn senator and congressmen we have today! I am sure Teddy would be fully utilizing that "big stick" he always used to talk about!
~Jack
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