A Conservative Voice

Pretty soon I’m going to have to “put up, or shut up”, but I’ll be happy to do so just to stop all the non-stop commercials villainizing our would-be leaders.  See, I have pretty much promised that regardless of who makes it into office, I’m not going to trash talk them.  I haven’t trash talked any of our previous or existing presidents, at least not while they are sitting in Office, and I don’t plan on starting any time soon.

Its not really a secret that I want a conservative minded person in the White House.  Naturally I am rather conservative and would like someone there who can represent the way I think and feel.  If someone else gets that position however, my life is not going to end, and I’m not going to freak out like so many did after the 2004 election.

I’ve stopped listening to talk radio because the egos are just too much for me to handle.  I want the news and to know what’s going on around the world, and I want the truth.  Even if the truth is something I am not going to be happy with, I wanna know it.  Since our information is always delivered by some mechanism that includes humans, there will always be at least a slight hint of perception or bias.  I do still hit the Drudge Report several times a day, and even though it leans to the right, and is often the darling of the Republican Party, I find a nice mix of both sides usually.

I never could find what station Rush Limbaugh was on here locally after he was no longer syndicated on KVI, and since I didn’t spend any measurable amount of time hunting him down in these last eight or so years, must signal that I was never a die hard have-to-have-it fan.  I settled with Sean Hannity.  Settle is a good word.  Its mostly his ego I am talking about when I mention talk radio egos.  You can say you are in the business for your listeners a million times, and that you are not wanting the spot light… but it just doesn’t make it true, if its not.

Since I don’t listen to talk radio of any kind at all now, I do get a little bored.  I miss the idle chatter and occasional slam on some Lefty.  When I decided to leave Sean and switch to just my local Christian music station (Spirit 105.3, y’all!) I didn’t seek out Rush again for one key reason: Operation Chaos.  Operation Chaos is where Rush Limbaugh promoted Republican voting constituents to vote for Hillary Clinton since John McCain was in the bag.  Voting for her would linger the Democrats’ process in selecting a candidate for the election.  That’s completely idiotic.  Sorry Rush, but I think that’s even borderline criminal, if it isn’t criminal.

In our primaries I voted for a guy who had already dropped out of the race.  But he was the best candidate for the job in my opinion.  I figure if he got any delegates from the votes he did get, he could recommend to them whom to back at the Republican Convention – I’d trust him with that.  I don’t consider that throwing my vote away.  I DO however consider voting for someone else whom you DON’T want to win, just to prolong a process, wasting a vote.  You should be honest and sincere in this process and vote your heart, not your greed or malice.

I would never and could never vote for someone I didn’t think would do a good job, especially for the position of President.  Along those same lines, I could never and would never fraudulently vote more than one time for any candidate.  Cheating is not how you make friends OR influence people.  Not for the better anyway.

All this early voting and over-use of absentee ballots is making me nauseous too.  I think we are losing a lot in the process and respect for the tradition that comes with this responsibility of voting.  Take the day that we set aside for voting and go vote.  Use the absentee form when you are going to be absent from your registered polling place.  Filling out a ballot and mailing it is so clinical and cheap.  Get out there and be with the people you are voting with.  You don’t have to talk to them, but by all means, make this institution something more than chatter around the watering hole on the day after.

People who fraudulently vote and try to cheat the system should be punished to the fullest extent of the law regardless of which party they belong to.  If Republicans are doing it, nail ‘em to the wall.  If Democrats are doing it, nail ‘em up there too.  And I don’t mean in a good way.

So I’ll say it again, just because I like the way my voice sounds here in print.

Vote.  Vote once and do it with your heart.  Don’t cheapen the process.  Realize the responsibility that comes with this right.  I don’t care who you vote for, but vote.  If the candidate you voted for doesn’t win, feel free to take it up with your Representatives and up the line to the Presidency.  This might not make a lot of sense to some of you, but: complain as much as you want – and do it with respect.  We have the freedom of speech in America, but that freedom only spans to the edges of our borders.