Left Turn

I've been a Republican all my life.

That being said, while I still believe in Republican government, I feel like I have nothing in common with today's GOP platform, on so many levels. I'm pro-choice. Not pro-abortion. (Don't get me started.) I do not believe God belongs in our State Houses or in our White House. I think the law should be the law for all of our citizens.....white, black, brown....Christian, Catholic, Jew, Hindu, Muslim....each and every single one of us. I don't believe in smiting those who don't share my God or my customs or my holidays. I feel like the GOP jams democracy down the world's throat while jamming a Christmas tree up its collective @ss. I'm not ok with that.

I think it's time to take a turn from what's not working for today's America; apparently, I've turned left. It's clearly time for the GOP to reinvent itself and get in touch with what today's Republican cares about. But I have to say that if it is to rise out of the ashes, Sarah Palin will never speak for me.

Regardless of the outcome of today's election, America is forever changed and I see only positives in that. I see on TV the lines of people in Virginia and Florida waiting patiently to excersise their most basic right as Americans, to raise their voices, to speak through their votes, and it heartens me. We'll soldier on, right or left, and we'll be okay. It's how we do.

My Pop always said that no administration could wreck this country in eight years....though George F Bush certianly tried. I still believe that our system is the best system in the world; and on this election day, I am so thankful to be a part of this country and this process.

I'm proud to be an American.