I have been watching these elections since I was very little. In fact to give you an idea of how long I have been paying attention I was five or six years old when Regan was shot. Yes, I was a political news hound at that age too. Yes, at this age I considered myself a Democrat. This would be shocking to my twelve year old son now. Why did I choose this? Well to be perfectly honest I wasn't big on research and just chose a party. In my mind it made sense to pick the party that my dad was not a "party" to. Do you get it? "Party?" It was funny in my head. Anyway, my dad was a Republican and I a Democrat. There wasn't arguing there was just me going to the voting booth with my dad trying to sway my dad to vote to the party that I wanted him to vote for. I watched the Mondale/Regan election and cried when Mondale didn't win. I did the same for Bush/Dukakias Bush/Clinton (I was elated about Clinton winning) and the Bush W/Gore election. Finally, Obama/McCain election was my highlight of Democratic Presidents. Why did I vote for Obama?
I personally thought that I would feel the pride that I felt for Obama as I felt for Clinton. It never happened. I was mainly concerned about how healthcare was going work. I watched in the early nineties as Clinton's stint in Universal Healthcare just didn't work. He didn't have support from the nation or Washington. He turned his attention to other national matters. This didn't stop Obama when it was his turn. He continued on with his plan of Universal Healthcare. This at first seemed to be a good idea, but the financial aspect concerned me. The main idea was that everyone had to sign up for ObamaCare. This was a slow start and the administration never got the numbers that they were looking for at the start. The signing up for health care didn't initially bother me. My attention leaned toward the IRS. It was noted that if you didn't sign up you were fined or in my eyes taxed. The word tax wasn't in the Obama Administration's vocabulary. Obama preferred fine because taxing Americans for something that they are already taxed for through their insurance companies isn't hip to announce. This was my final straw. The time between then and now served many changes in my life. I divorced my first husband and then was lucky enough to find love again. When I met Barry my political leanings were already starting to change. My window of acceptance was closing up. Because why should I pay more taxes and be considered a racist and bigot when I don't agree with Presidential policies. This enters into my final transformation to Conservatism. It was political correctness.
It was the political correctness that because I disagreed with the President that I was instantly racist. Oprah Winfrey said it herself that I was a racist because I do not accept the policies being forced upon me. If I am a woman I am supposed to be a feminist and be okay with the murder of children not yet able to live their lives. My belief in God is wrong because the atheist would be offended. There are so many reasons. My best reason to becoming a "tree hugging, God fearing, Gun toting, Tea Party sympathizer, Libertarian" was that I recognized through my husband, Dinesh D'Souza and attending my first NRA convention that Obama and the progressive left didn't love America. They wanted me to submit(the only person that gets that honor is God)conform and accept everything that they wanted me to believe. I chose not to conform. I love being a true feminist. This means that I chose to stay-at-home with my children and consider my husband to be a part of me. My husband is not holding me down because I am a woman and he is a man. It doesn't work like.
I am a woman. I am a woman who is very lucky, yet more blessed than lucky. I am blessed because I live in a country that doesn't give me what I think I need, but gives me the equal opportunity to live my life as I please. I am a Conservative because I don't want something handed to me. I want the equal opportunity to rise up and make a life for myself and my family.
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