August 17, 2010

I need to remember to switch party affiliation - and by the way, I will not become a Democrat.  I will be an Independent - which means I can't vote in primaries in the State of Nebraska.  How ridiculous is that?  I am having a tough time leaving the Republican party because I am still naive enough to believe that it can go back to its traditional roots.   The reason I consciously chose to register as a Republican all those years ago was because I thought the party reflected my personal views: respect individual and personal rights, with government keeping their noses out of the bedroom, and small government resulting in lower taxes.   The party has now been hijacked and those hijackers somehow feel it is necessary to dictate their own ideas of appropriate behavior.  That's unacceptable and so sad that the Republican party let this happen.