I don't know that exact moment when I got that grasp of reality. It wasn't an epiphany but it was close. It came in 2008 with Obama. Reverend Wright had a lot to do with it--he was the icing.
Many Democrats have drifted to the Republican ideals of limiting government and lowering taxes. Others are becoming Independents. We know that without reforming Medicare there will be NO Medicare. We also know that Social Security needs to be overhauled to keep it sustainable for future generations.
Democratic centrists and conservatives are the people who are critical to Obama's campaign. It is the Democratic conservatives' efforts that are needed to reform the party's platform on welfare, balancing the budget, reducing spending and waste, healthcare, Medicare and the anti-business image it has created. We can no longer spend more than we are taking in. This is just a basic premise and we understand it. However, the Democrats are pushing us further away and out of the Party.
As they have made abortion a political issue, Democrats are allowing doctors to kill babies who came out of an abortion still alive or allow doctors to abort in the 8th or 9th month of a pregnancy. We must protect the rights of the unborn in these instances. And as Mitt Romney said at the RNC, “The truest measure of any society is how it treats those who cannot defend or care for themselves.”
But it's not just how Democrats treat the defenseless, it is how they treat anyone who disagrees with them. This campaign is the most vicious in history and Romney has been accused of causing someone's death from cancer and Ryan has been compared to Joseph Goebbels, both insane lies of magnificent proportions. The Democrats have no honor.
We conservatives can only hope that others will also finally admit that liberal ideology is not working; socialism is not working and we need businesses to create jobs in this country, not big corporations off-shoring them for profits. Unions need to be contained. We need people to understand that it is the small business owner across this country that creates jobs in businesses they built with their own ingenuity and the risks they took...not unions or government telling them how to do it.
So, you have to ask yourself--Am I better off today than I was four years ago? There is still the American Dream. It's just getting harder to achieve under liberals.
