Today I went online and made my political party affiliation \u201cunaffiliated\u201d. I found I could no longer stomach being associated with the party that has John Boehner as its leader.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m even from Ohio. You\u2019d think I\u2019d be proud to be able to say that Speaker of the House is from my state. Alas, I find him petulant, vengeful, and childish\u2014in all the wrong areas and to all the wrong people.<\/p>\n
Twenty-five other Republicans found that in their own conscious they could not vote for him to be Speaker for a third term. He still was elected, just by a slimmer margin. His response? Anyone who voted against him, especially if they were on a committee, lost that posting. And he may not be done with them after doing that. I guess he figures that if they vote against him in the beginning they might continue to do so. His margin is big enough in his mind, so he doesn\u2019t need those 25 Republicans. He can cave in to Obama for the next two years without them just fine.<\/p>\n
He is like that skinny pimply kid with the thick glasses in school\u2014the one who always had his books knocked out of his arms. Now he\u2019s been made the hall monitor by the teacher. He has an ounce of power and he is now lashing out at those he thinks did him wrong.<\/p>\n
It is not to say that I won\u2019t vote for Republicans. I might. My voting decision only means that I have to do more homework on my own. But the best benefit? I\u2019m not supposed to receive all those mailings anymore as elections draw near. The only drawback is that I no longer get to vote in primaries. I can no longer help shape who the Republican (hopefully Conservative) candidate might be. An example would be the run up to the Gubernatorial election in Colorado. I will no longer get to help pare down the selections from Tancredo, Beauprez, and the litany of others. I will only get to vote in the general election. And that\u2019s okay. I can still write in my candidate\u2014sort of like I did in that very election.<\/p>\n
Want me back Republican Party? Start staying true to your core values, your platform. We voted you idiots into office to do just that. Now that you are there, your focus has shifted to how you can stay there, not what is best for you constituents or the country. That shift has to start from the top. By getting rid of John Boehner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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