Pollywogs!

When viewing such a creature, you’d be hard pressed to describe it.  In fact, you may exclaim “Hell, there ain’t no such animal“.  I can’t say what political party I belong to because no political party represents me.

There is nothing wrong with conservatives in general, I myself have conservative leanings.  It is pretending that they all stand under one big tent that causes problems, as they all then move in lockstep behind some very poor leaders.

Republicans have historically been very good at keeping everyone reigned in by pandering heavily on a few core issues that are knee jerk issues for some people (gays, guns and god), but the past eight years prove that just because you say you love baby jesus and guns, and hate a-hrabs and queers, doesn’t mean you are competent to run a country:

• ignoring pre-9/11 intelligence (SOCOM’s Able Danger had Al Qaeda all figured out, but you still don’t see that info in the 9/11 commission report, hell, Israel knew 9/11 was going to happen and had some intelligence operatives on-site to document it (< YOU MUST WATCH THIS VIDEO)…lack of accountability!!!)
• ignoring real economic reform at the expense of our national deficit and quick profits
• ignoring the inevitable energy crunch
• ignoring Katrina (heck of a job Brownie)
• ignoring Afghanistan, and instead focusing trillions of dollars into Iraq (Paul O’Neill came out and said that an attack on Iraq had been planned since the inauguration ffs).

Deep down inside, I am have conservative leanings, I guess you could call them Libertarian.  I believe in a strong limit on the federal government’s powers.  I think people have the right to be free to do whatever they like in the privacy of their own homes (including owning fully automatic AK-47s, worshiping whatever they choose, and homosexual oral sodomy), and the government needs to quit pretending that they are our mommy or our nanny, that they can legislate “what is Right” with law after law after law.

I think national governments in general are a joke, a structure that exists simply to perpetuate themselves and defend themselves against other national governments…while providing very little in return.  Local and state government, those give you services you can see and use every day.  The federal government…just what the hell ARE they doing with all of my money???

That said, I am COMPLETELY disillusioned with the conservative movement of the past forty plus years, and would never call myself a Republican as I can’t abide by Reaganomics, a standing army geared towards fighting a third World War, war-hawks in general who think that military force is a diplomatic tool, fear and disgust towards gays, Muslims, atheists and people of ethnicity, and all the other platforms that Republicans have stood upon for the past thirty years.

The debate is framed so that only these knee-jerk issues matter, while defense spending spirals out of control, our media is owned by international mega-conglomerations which get orders to promote or bury stories based on profits, our national infrastructure decays, our educational systems costs increase and yet continue to churn out mediocre students, our health care costs spiral up at the same time our infant mortality rate increases to the second worst in the industrialized world…damn I’m riled up…