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Originally Posted by scaeagles
Perhaps there are those who actually want to keep taxes lowered that support the republicans as well. Just a thought.
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You probably remember that I have some pretty non-Democratic Party views--on things like illegal immigration, gun ownership, school choice--I am squarely between the Republican and Libertarian parties on a lot of issues.
However after 7 years of a Bush White House (and I will confess here I voted for W in 2000), I am completely and thoroughly disgusted with what his administration has done. It is almost mind-boggling how his administration was able to mess up so much... I think a lot of it has to do with their coming in with a dogmatic ideology and contempt for government, and with Bush's general philosophy that political favoritism should win out over all other qualifications.
That's how you wind up tossing highly qualified people out in favor of a bunch of mindless Dilbert bosses simply because they are pets of the Republican Party and the Bush administration.
I've had enough.
I want to see every single one of those bureaucratic goons out of office and back to their low-level civil service jobs where all they do is annoy people trying to renew their driver's licenses; not in power in DC where they have effectively ground everything to a halt.
For me, I see Obama as a way to flush all of that garbage down the toilet. Out! I say.
That said, I do NOT agree with all of Obama's stances on issues. In fact, there's a running joke at home. Alex periodically reminds me, "What are you going to when Obama becomes president? You don't agree with a lot of his views."
Well, I've come to accept that several months ago (I forgot when I had my conversion but it must have been last fall sometime). I looked at my two possible options, and I went with the one that I feel will be more effective in flushing the current effluent out of the White House.
I voted for W for 2000 because I was tired of supporting a candidate that I felt was part of that hated Clinton administration... but I disliked the Clintons because of their personal choices, not necessarily because of their politics. 9/11 changed Bush in a way nobody expected. And not in a good way. His ideology got in the way and we stopped being ambassadors to the world in any sense.
McCain might have been good for us in a post-9/11 world... in 2004. But not now. And not when his opponent is someone who brings hope and dreams to the entire world.
And before anyone says we need more than hopes and dreams, take a look at Disneyland, and how much wonderful goodness hoping and dreaming can bring to the world.