My Political Opinion 2012

We are two days from the 2012 presidential election and I feel the need to post my opinion. I am in what is colloquially termed, mid-life. When I first began my voting career at 18 I was mostly middle of the road, but I had definite Republican leanings. I have always voted a split ticket. I tried to cast my vote to the candidate that seemed to posses the most integrity as well as declaring to support positions that I considered best for the country as a whole. My hope was that I could pick the brightest candidates available, and that together they would debate their ideas coming from differing ideologies and come up with the best possible solution. In the past years my dream of the best and brightest working together for the good of the whole has gone entirely unfulfilled. What we have today is obstructionist politics with the only goal being the support and advancement of the party. It really makes me sick. This year I am voting a straight Democratic ticket. I am doing this because the Republican party has moved too far to the right for me to support their platform. They couldn’t have cared less about the impact to the country during the financial crisis, obstructing every initiative President Obama proposed while offering nothing of their own. Their only concern was being able to say that President Obama didn’t accomplish anything and claiming that having a Republican president would have made all the difference. Both parties are about as bad as each other in that they care only about the party, but at least the Democrats have retained a more middle ground stance on the issues. Because neither party seems to think the voters will hold them accountable (and by all indications they are correct), this year I plan to vote a straight Democratic ticket. The only way the parties will start paying attention to, and working for the people again is if they see, in the form of votes that they are losing. I feel like kicking all the Republican butts out of office at once would be just the wake up call needed. I don’t expect my choice will make a difference to anyone except me, but this is my plan and my reason for it.