Thursday, March 09, 2006

Yes, Yes I am.

Seems it's a bad thing to be a Republican these days, we seem to be open fodder for the masses. I swear, there are some times and circles in which I'm actually cautious if my Republicanism comes out I'll catch Hell for it. Well Hell back, I'm tired of that.

I grew up in a Democrat household, I remember politics being talked about in my house from my earliest days. My parents never forced any particular agenda down my throat and somewhere along the way I become a Republican.

I used to be a hardliner, for many years I was of the Bob Grant sort of right. I was hardcore. In my old age I've become very much a centrist Republican but I am now and have always been a Republican. I'm not a huge fan of the President, I voted for him both times but it was more because I disliked both Gore and Kerry than because I thought Bush was anything great.

I was a political science major, I'm not without knowledge. I'm an aware Republican whose favourite President of all is Harry S Truman. I have a hard time feeling any sort of connection to the representatives of my party, it's time for the Republicans to come into the modern age and accept the empirical over the normative and learn to deal with it.

I'm tired of the evil-eyed stares and comments I get. I have many many friends who are Democrat, Liberal, Socialist, Green, you name it. It's alright if we disagree but the second I say Republican all of a sudden I'm this evil thing who wants to overturn Roe v. Wade, wants to remove all civil liberties from people, is a war mongering hate machine and who eats babies every other Friday at midnight.

It bothers me that in my age range of 35-40, I can't identify on Republican I can relate to or who I could get behind in a campaign and support. I live in the real world. Abortion is not going anywhere, kids are having sex and doing drugs, families are devolving, schools are in trouble, too many people don't have healthcare, I support stem cell research, etc. I would trade a kidney to find one Republican with a like mind. That was a big thing that turned me off Kerry, he was beyond disingenuous with his claims to being of the common folk and understanding their issues. Not that Bush does either for the most part but I recall a clip of Bush sitting in a firehouse in NY city eating pizza and drinking a beer and instantly thinking that Kerry would look ridiculous in the same position.

My party loyalty is tenuous at best. I could easily be swayed if the candidate was right, I'm more concerned with issues than party lines. There's an election coming up and I see no standout candidates on either side and yes, it worries me.

GW Bush is not the root of the problems in America, neither is Bill Clinton. Republicans are not the bad guys, Democrats are not the voice of the people. We need a new party, a mixing of all that is good in the Democrats and Republicans brought together. I'll just keep dreaming there, ok?

In the meantime, stop attacking me because I am a Republican and I'm not ashamed of it. Of some of the members in my party and their actions, yes but of the party itself, no. Neither side is doing anything to help America.

No, I'm not turning this blog into an all-issue blog. I'll leave that to the legends and be happy alternating between quizzes, self reflecting and issues. I'm just so damn tired of biting my tongue because I know when I say what I want to say, instead of discourse on the issue, it will be instant condemnation of my Republicanism and nothing else.

Hello, my name is WebKittyn and I'm a Republican. Deal with it.

1. It’s about time, Kittyn. I love your mind and
   you haven’t let anyone into it for a long time
   now. Keep it up, more of this.

    on  03/09  at  06:44 PM

2. I’m not a Democrat or a Republican. I’m not a Green or a Libertarian or an ‘Independant’. I do not have a registered party and here in Georgia I don’t have to have one. I’m not a Liberal (gasp!) or a Conservative (double gasp!). To be completely honest, I don’t like the parties we have. Most of the ‘front men’ of the parties are jackasses. I think being a jackass has nothing to do with what party you are affiliated with. 

   Most people think that because I am pro-choice, pro-freedom and pro-change that I must be a liberal and a democrat. They words have connotation these days. Just like “Republican” is immediately cast into a similar connotation.

   I don’t like parties and I think people should run a campaign on ideas, issues and their own opinions. Unfortunately, this probably won’t happen with politics as it is. Now you need money to run a campaign and thus, parties come into a much larger role than they ever have in the past.

   My favorite President is Thomas Jefferson despite the fact he didn’t really want to be president and didn’t ever relax into the role. I also repsect Jimmy Carter..probably the last of the real grass roots candidates.

   Utopia  on  03/09  at  09:37 PM

3. Hey!

   It’s not clear to me at all _why_ you are a republican. So, why are you a republican?
   When I was in my twenties, I turned republican just in response to the fact that my family, like yours, was Democratic. I turned back to being a Democrat when I realized that the I supported virtually no positions espoused by republicans.
   You say that you didn’t like Kerry because you couldn’t see him sitting in a firehouse like Bush did during the campaign. Please tell me that you had other reasons for voting for bush rather than the fact that you ‘liked’ him more than Kerry or Gore.
   Because the fact is of the 2 items that you mentioned above, bush has been far, far worse for choice and for stem cell research than either Kerry or Gore. But, you must have evaluated those positions and realized that they weren’t important enough to you to not vote for bush. The fact that bush has just put two justices on the Supreme Court that will almost undoubtably vote to overturn Roe clearly must not be an important thing for you. What do you think of wasting 1000s of American lives and 100,000s of Iraqi lives in a futile push for Democracy in a middle eastern country? (Ignore the fact that he and his entire administration lied about why we need to be there.) Or, the fact that bush feels that he can spy on anyone that he likes without a warrant? Is this ok with you too?

   On another important topic, you mention in a post above that, the reason that men don’t get a vote in keeping or aborting a child is simple.
   If men can carry the fetus to term, then they should be able to have the baby.
   If men are going to have sex that might result in a baby, then they are obligated for child support.
   In both cases, there is major health issues involved, for the woman. The man has no such risks. It’s easy to _say_, I want the baby, I’ll take care of the baby for life. It’s quite enough to endure 9 months of a risky health procedure, that could result in death, to carry the baby to term.

   Anyway, those are my thoughts for the day.
   Take care,
   Jonathan

   Jonathan  on  03/14  at  03:51 PM
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