Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa

It has been a long time since I posted due to political disillusionment, burnout and a general dissatisfaction with the Republican candidate selected for us by the media and party elitists -who believe more in winning than standing on principle. It is very difficult to fight the ideological battles that I am compelled to fight when my 'Party Leader' has more in common with the opposition than with me.

It was a true struggle for me to pull the lever in McCain's favor -the lesser of two evils- but I did though I struggled mightily to do it. Palin's pragmatism and lack of political insider taint is what actually brought me over from write-in to pulling in favor of the McCain / Palin ticket. The funny thing is, the argument Liberals used in an attempt to harm McCain ('she's a heartbeat away from the presidency') was the greatest incentive for me to vote McCain!

When PA went blue, I predicted McCain would lose. It was bizarre, because I thought I should feel disappointed, or angry, or something...crazily, I felt relieved. I was relieved he didn't win and I don't have to feel guilty for anything he might have done -as president- in my name. I was relieved because I didn't want responsibility for the legalization of 10-20 million illegal immigrants. I was relieved that the devastation of our economy through Cap & Trade legislation would not be realized by a Republican president. I was relieved that the march to socialism would not continue under a Republican leadership. I am discouraged and afraid of our future under Obama and his leftist, rubber-stamp congress; but I have hope that the kernel of conservatism will live on and, with reform, it can still have a home in the Republican party.

Our nation has diverged from the principles laid down by our founding fathers. Despite their prescience and understanding of human nature codified and put down in the Constitution, we have managed to weasel around their safeguards and are quickly approaching a society that is an anathema to their original plan. We are well on our way to serfdom and if the majority of Americans don't wake up to the realities of collectivist ideology and and where it inevitably leads, we will find ourselves slaves to the state.

I'm going to make a sincere effort to post more often and will attempt to put into words all of that which has led to my own disillusionment. I'm making this commitment in the hopes that we, as a nation, can forestall or prevent the bleak future that I foresee. I'm going to do this as an outlet for me to vent my angst, form and understand my philosophy (and how it relates to conservatism in general), and to regain and share hope in our nation's resilience in the face of a massive and concerted effort to resign our freedom in favor of a perceived security.