The Stout Republican

I used to be a registered Independent. I didn’t want to buy into the system MANNNNN…sigh…I was a kid.

So here’s the question if you’re willing to ponder along with me: At what point do you actually tap out, give up, and say, “That’s it, you can have the R back.” The reason I joined the Republican party was because of some sort of magic idea of the way things should be. I never have agreed with the Republican talking points 100% and have fancied myself as having a libertarian crazy streak in me (without the other naive libertarian proclivities), but figured the best model for change was within a structure that mostly resembled my own belief structure, one that centers around personal responsibility, personal choice, freedom of speech, and freedom of self. As I sit here now, I can’t find a semblance that any more in my party.

Yes, I crossed out the line “Republican” and Microsoft paint, and scribbled in “Conservative” in a fit of uninspired “art”, to throw up in defiance at the selection of McCain, then I broke down, and took it back…didn’t matter in the long run. I thought, “how could my part pick McCain?” Here’s the deal though…this isn’t my part any more. I don’t know what this party has become.

Maybe the Democrats have really done it. Maybe they’ve convinced the “have-nots” that merely existing is reason enough to be taken care of in every way possible. Maybe they managed to suck the independent self reliance right out of the sails of this country, sending it spiraling downward in a forever repeating pattern of:

• ________ is broken.
• Let’s put money into ______.
• _________ doesn’t get better.
• Let’s put more money into __________.
• Repeat

I’ve been clicking through my site recently, from post numero uno – to when I had a tangible sense of humor – to now…I think I’m a bit more bitter now. I’m not usually one for melodramatics, or sensationalism, but the Republican party is dying…somewhere along they way they became those guys, the guys more concerned with staying in office than doing the right thing for the American public.

I’ve said it before, but we’ve all seen how that spoiled brat that gets everything he wants from his parents without any discipline, guidance, or oversight? That’s what we’ve become, a coddled nation full of over-indulged babies who feel we’re entitled to things our parents used to have to earn. Good Lord, I’m 27 and I feel this way…I can’t imagine how defeated those who share my beliefs a generation ahead of me must feel. I think it’s time to consider that third party. I haven’t given to the Republicans in quite a few months now, and the mailers go straight into the trash. My Rep Rohrabacher just voted to give the Treasury department the oversight to control executive pay they deem “unreasonable”! Good luck getting anyone to define unreasonable. Independent is looking pretty good right now.

To wind down (as this is now a long post for me), if you make people feel like it doesn’t matter how hard, or smart they work they’ll continue to be punished at a greater degree in the form of taxes and contempt, many won’t work as hard; if you keep giving money to those who don’t work hard, what makes people think they’ll work harder? It seems like such common sense…

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