SWITCHING SIDES

Since I've always been a pretty liberal guy, and concerned about social justice and world peace, I've decided that maybe I should continue to evolve and make some changes. I'm thinking of voting Republican in the Fall. The more I listen to certain high profile Republicans, the more I'm convinced that they have a point. Maybe Michelle Bachman has a point about investigating congress...maybe they do have some un American ties to terrorists, especially if they have close connections to Hillary Clinton.

Glen Beck makes a lot of sense lately too...his theories about anti American activity seem more and more plausible...and people like Rush and Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity seem to know a lot more than I do. The more I see my new party wanting to let wealthy people get big tax breaks the more I understand than when they have more money they'll probably use it to make new jobs for people...they won't just hang on to it or invest it to make more.

Our own Rick Santorum made me think twice about a lot of things too. Maybe women ought to stay home and have babies instead of working, and realize that sex is really meant to have kids. The Republican party also wants to stop women from terminating pregnancies..and the best way to do that is probably to force them to undergo a lot of tests and jump through some pretty tough hoops. Using birth control really does go against nature when you think about it.

Mitt Romney also wants to keep gay people out of the military, and would bring back Don't Ask Don't Tell...which seemed to work just fine before. He's also never going to let gay people get married...which is in the Bible after all. When the Boy Scout recently re-affirmed their no gay scouts or counselor policy, I felt bad for my neighbor who was an Eagle Scout and also gay.... he feels awful about this, but I can still love the sinner and hate the sin.

I saw Dick Cheney the other day when he was trying to stop the cuts to the military budget, and all of a sudden, I started to really like him. He still says the Iraq war was worth the money and the blood, and Donald Rumsfield feels the same way, and they aren't exactly stupid people.

All in all, if Donald Trump is on to something about Obama not being an American, and he's also a smart Republican, I wouldn't be surprised if he's right. People tell me that social security is "socialism"...but that doesn't make sense. Rick Santorum always wanted to tie it in with the stock market...and I wonder how much more I'd be getting if he would have been able to do that? I also don't remember President Bush using up any "surplus".  Obama was the one who started all the financial problems as I remember. The economy was fine when George Bush left office...I think.

All in all it seems time to end this blog. I'm feeling a little sick to my stomach and I'll just bet that some of you are too. Tongue in cheek is one thing, but the above nonsense is really what I hear from far too many people. Woof has been reading over my shoulder this morning....and she suddenly looks as if she REALLY has to go out.