Recovering Democrat
Hi, My name is Scott and I am a recovering Democrat. I last voted for a Democrat nearly 4 years ago, but as you might well imagine, the next few months are going to be tough for me.
Well, actually they aren’t. I’ve admitted that I had a problem with my inability to respect authority, my moral equivalence where I thought Good and Evil were outmoded concepts, and my yearning to be European.
That all changed three years ago on a bright Tuesday morning under a crystalline blue sky on September 11, 2001.
Since that time, things haven’t been easy. You see, I realized that day that my liberal beliefs wouldn’t protect me from people who wanted to kill me and my family – but men willing to risk their lives carrying fire hoses, handguns and automatic rifles would. It was a hard transition for me, being brought up as an intellectual in Reagan’s America.
Since that time, I have learned to treasure my independence – having seen that the Republican party is more interested in tax breaks for the wealthy and shipping my job overseas and turning me into a servant than in protecting my family. Still, I have found people in it who agree with me – Congressman Tom Tancredo for example. And even the die-hards like Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity are much more enjoyably to watch raging than Al Franken and Michael Moore. After all, Ann’s legs are so much better looking than Michael Moore’s and the Republican Party is the party of straight sex anyway.
The largest part of my recovery has been accepting Bush for what he is: a man of his word. I agree with him sometimes, but disagree with him more often than not. Still, John Kerry is frightening. He reminds me too much of the Manchurian Candidate – the real movie not the remake. He lies so often that he doesn’t seem to understand the difference between it and the truth. That is the very definition of a pathological liar, and I cannot stomach the idea of voting for him.
So my recovery continues. There are a few Democrats I will vote for at the state and local levels – but they don’t get much support from the national party anyway. They are smart people, and hopefully will help rebuild the Democratic Party after it implodes this Fall. At that point I might consider voting a straight ticket someday – but I take things one vote at a time and doubt that I will.
That’s all I have to share at this time. Thank you!
