Let's see. College education is bad. Religion in the public square is bad if it's Obama's or Romney's but good if it's Santorum's or Gingrich's. Gays should be outlawed or a constitutional amendment needs to be created to ensure lack of equal rights. Health reform has to go! The government is too involved in health care! Women! You need to have a vaginal ultrasound! Really?
Tell me about how you'll deal with conflicts cropping up all over the world. How you'll bring meaningful jobs to the masses who've lost their jobs as companies save money with overseas labor. Tell me, who the heck is going to buy what they're making when the jobs coming back pay so much less than the jobs that were lost?
And stop, just stop, not acknowledging ANYTHING the president has done. The Dow was at 6,000 (ish) in the final months of George Bush's term. It hit 13,000 yesterday. But Obama is a socialist or a fascist or a Muslim (and who the hell cares if he is. There's nothing in the Constitution that says only a Quaker or a Catholic or a pick something can be president), or some kind of Manchurian candidate.
Look. I'm not happy with a ton of what's happened under Obama's watch. But very little of it is about him. Republicans idea of compromise seems to be "my way or the highway". Letting people talk about "death panels" unchallenged ... letting people talk about his birth certificate UNCHALLENGED ... and so on says all I need to know about whether I'll vote for a Republican in the fall.
I was as junior delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1984. And today, I will no longer vote Republican.
Who changed? Me? or the Republican Party I knew and loved?
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