Well today is the big day many people have been waiting for since 2008. Finally, WE get to take our country back. I had not realized anyone had taken it from us besides the big banks, mortgage institutions, and insurance companies. But I guess some communists, socialists, and Marxists have wheedled their way in, thank God someone was there to let me know. In the last couple of years we have been bombarded with the most amazing fear mongering I have ever seen. Glenn Beck is possibly more popular than ever with his vast and overly dramatic conspiracy theories, his crazy Nazi uniforms and symbolism, and his magical chalkboard. Rush Limbaugh is thought to be the tail-wagger of the Republican party with his bigoted hate messages broadcast throughout the airwaves on a daily basis. Not a day goes by that someone doesn't post a warning of Marxist America on their facebook page (why am I friends with these people??) Preachers have even gotten into the mix. Billy Graham's son Franklin is very vocal about fearing Muslims, James Dobson's Focus on the Family has done much damage to any chance a gay teen has to feel like a real person who deserves a good life, and we won't even go into Pat Robertson, it's too crazy to touch on. To me this is sad and a waste of their calling. These people should know better, they really should.
As for the President, I have to say I have been slightly disappointed in him. I am disappointed that there is no public option, I am disappointed in his stand on gay rights, DADT and marriage, and GITMO. I am disappointed in how he, trying to work in the bipartisan fashion he promised, has let the Republicans run all over him. To me, nothing better could happen than for the Republicans to take the house and finally have to take some ownership of this mess they call Washington. The "party of NO" will have to finally do something besides say no. They have already said "we will not compromise". Yes, that would make me feel good about voting for someone.
We have tea party candidates like Rand Paul, Christine O'Donnell, Sharon Angle, Meg Whitman, Carl Paladino, Linda McMahon, that may show up in Washington next year. This is what should scare us to death. This is not Saturday Night Live, these are people that will be making the decisions that change our lives, people that won't talk to the press or answer any questions, people that vilify gays and say that should not be a lifestyle option, yet send pornographic emails to their friends, own two gay bars, and has a second family with his mistress. People that don't have a fourth grade knowledge of what the Constitution says, people that want to deport all the illegal immigrants (ohhh 'cept the ones that work for them), people that think civil rights are ok, BUT business owners should be able to turn blacks away, cause it's their business. Sharon Angle said she would answer questions from the press when she is elected. Is this ok? Christine O'Donnell will only go on Fox, because that is where sister Sarah sent her. "It's safer there for me and I have Sean Hannity in my back pocket." One GOP senate hopeful actually suggested we go back to bartering livestock for healthcare....all righty then. They are going to change this country. They have yet to be able to say how. I am still waiting on Palin to let us know how she will "cut taxes and shore up the economy and create jobs"---maybe we will see in 2012, because it seems she is twittering her way to the White House. I mean Bristol said she thinks it would be awesome! How can you argue with that?
Maybe I am jaded, maybe I have political rhetoric burnout, or maybe I am really ready for one politician to have the audacity to do his/her job. The amount of money these candidates spend on negative attack ads could feed a small country, it's sad, really. The bloat of overspending is mostly in defense, that will never be touched, not even a percentage. Do we ever even hear anyone talk about how much money we are spending in a war that is suppose to be over? Of course not, how un-American would that be?
So we will see, it ought to be interesting. I voted, I did what I could. You probably did too, possibly differently, but I bet we all want the same thing....results.
