I was a registered Republican and precinct committee woman in my former state for years. I was very upset with the war in Iraq and Bush but because I did like John McCain (because he was a moderate and I am a moderate) I was supporting him in 2008. That is until he picked Palin. No amount of money could make me vote for her.
At the same time, I was sick that my friend in Florida was denied health insurance because she had cancer in the past. And disgusted with the fact that the man who goes to my church had to sell his house because of medical bills he could not pay. At the same time, my sister who is a diabetic and heart patient , had to pay over $800 a month for insurance for over a year after her husband died. This was because she had to go on disability and you don’t get any insurance for the first year on disability. I felt that our health care system favored only the rich and still do feel that way.
I went to several meetings at the time of the health care debate and all I heard from speakers on the right was such hate that it made me sick that so called “Christians” could talk that way. All that anger and not one constructive idea presented about how to fix the health care problem. The Senator who was at the talks kept saying we have to fix it or it will bankrupt the country and no one even pretended to listen. They just called him and the President dirty names and waved their Tea Party flags in his face. It was disgusting!
As far as the Republican Party…until they quite focusing on all the social issues (sorry, just beating Obama is not enough to get my vote) and start giving real solutions to the real problems in this country… I can’t support them. The agenda that the Tea Party conservatives have shown in states where they have been elected will just put another nail in the coffin of the middle class in this country.
Getting rid of unions (even though I have never liked unions), teachers in public schools and a desire for more tax cuts seems to me to be just more ways to raise up the rich while hurting the poor and middle class. The fact that all of the Tea Party politicians, along with a couple Democrats and all but three Republican members of congress have signed pledges to Grover Norquist to never raise taxes under any circumstances makes me sure that they are working for him and not for me. And, frankly I think signing pledges to anyone should be illegal.
For all the reasons above and many more, I will be voting for Obama even though it was a hard decision. But after much thought and prayer…I think it is the right one. God bless.
