First Post

Good morning. Just trying out blogging. I feel I am an average American person. I lean towards the right. I take responsibility for myself. I expect others to ake responsibility for themselves. And I do not expect the government to hold my hand 24/7. I do not understand where this division and extreme hatred of opposing views has come from. A Conservitive can not voice thier views without being shouted down by the extreme left, and a Liberal can not voice theirs either without the extreme right shouting them down. Where did this all come from? I ask that question and know I wil get a bunch of people telling me that it's all George W's fault. It's not. This goes back even further the eight years. I can remember growing up in the sixties and seventies when the Presidential campaigns would be alot nicer. There were no personal attacks. Now you have all this money being spent by the extremist on both sides and the candidates feel that they have to cater to these wackos. You have the Ultra Left Moveon.org applying pressure to the Demorcrat candidates to vilify the seated President. You have the Ultra Conservative Focus On the Family exerting pressure to the Republican candidates to absolutly adhere to their platform. And somewhere we, as Americans, loose the actual person as a candidate.

I can not understand how a person who supports one side or the other would say If candidate so and so get's the nomination, I'm telling my orginazation to just not vote. Now does that make any sense to anyone else? Isn't that a lot like cutting off your nose to spite your face? If the party I support nominates some who supports half of what I believe in, and the opposing party nominates someone who doesn't support anything I believe in. Why would I give my vote to the other party? How can they not see this as being an absolute stupid theory? If I'm a Demorcrat and George Sorros tells me that just because the candidate my party choose to nominate for does not support an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, I should not vote for them. Or if James Dobson tells me that because the candidate the Republicans have decided to nominate does not support the repel of Roe v Wade, I should just throw my vote away. I always was taught that one of the hallmarks of what made this nation great, was our Independance. Our ability as an individual to think for ourselves. I am amazed by the state of politics today. Thank God I got over that stupid dream I had when I was younger to become President.