Why I'm not voting Republican...
...at least not anytime soon.
First, on the shallow surface, I don't even like John McCain or Mitt Romney (let's face it, Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee don't stand a chance, not like I like either one of them).
But going deeper, I feel like everything the Republican candidates open up their mouths and say I either disagree with, or....well, yeah, that's pretty much it.
"I'll find Osama Bin Laden" - ok, great, thanks.
"I won't back down from the terrorists" - oh, so this war gets to drag on longer? great, looking forward to it.
You're going to "secure" our boarders and build fences? Yeah, I'm thrilled.
You want to beef up the military? No thanks, spend the money on our lackluster schools and shoddy education system and maybe the kids going through the system will have better problem solving skills than the people currently in power.
You want to promote "strong families." - please, stop abusing the word "family" by making it code for "I don't support gay rights." Many gays and lesbians want families too. What about them?
And every time they say "I'm the true conservative," or some form of that phrase, I just go "well, clearly you aren't speaking to me or trying to get my vote because if I hear that you are a true conservative one more time, I might just throw my TV out the window." But really, I'm not conservative, but I don't consider myself wholly liberal. Maybe I am and I just don't see it, but the conservatives really aren't speaking to anything that's important to me. Sure I am a small business owner and I wish I had as much business now as I had this time last year (oh dear god, I really really do), but there are things much more important to me than how much money my business is bringing in. Shocker?
Here in California, we are a couple of hours away from our polls closing. I'm dying to know how everything pans out.
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