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A Young Republican’s Personal Crisis of Party

As you may or may not know, I voted for Obama in the general election.  Not because I believe we need nationalized healthcare, or any of the other radical things he wanted to do that will now likely not happen (if they even would have in the first place), but because I think America needed a change in leadership, radically different, to help rebuild our country's world image, and deal with some major issues so far ignored.

Anyways, I'd hoped that with Obama's entrance, Congress would be a little more like when Clinton was in office:  less about party politics, and more about getting things done for the country, which is what they're elected to do in the first place.  But, as we've seen, the Republicans, from the state-level up, are flat out opposing Obama on almost every issue, no matter what, and are now blaming him for things that THEIR PARTY caused... which they had no problem with during their own reign.

Now we have Limbaugh as the "voice of the party", and Jindal (or God forbid, Sarah Palin) as the "leader of the party" that is being looked to for a possible 2012.

To be honest, I'm about one more act of Republican stupidity from changing my party to Democrat.  No matter what you think of Obama's ideas, you can't argue that he hasn't tried, or that he hasn't done what he believes is the absolute best for the country.  I don't agree with the massive bailout of corporations who can't support themselves, let alone the banking mess (caused by previous deregulation... *cough*cough*), but I still believe Obama has the brains to pull us through, to be smart enough to invest in education, science, and research and not eschew it for psuedo-religious or pocket-lining reasons.

And yet the Republicans continue to be a party that caters to the "rich, white, God-fearing, southerner-to-the-heart" stereotype, and ignore reality.  I don't want to seem "haughty", but I don't feel that I can be associated with public figureheads who intentionally dumb themselves down, or are maybe that unintelligent to begin with, as some sort of party ideal - and continue with "business as usual" when their ideologies/methodologies are obviously not working.

So, not to make this email the length of a book, my major question is:  am I wrong?  I get information from different sources across the 'net, as well as outlets like CNN, so I'd like to think I've aggregated both sides of the story accurately.  How do you feel about what's going on right now, as a Republican?

I'm a true Republican to the heart... I believe in Defense spending and alot of the other classically conservative issues, and I'm also against alot of the so-called "hippie" ideals of the edge Democrats (nationalized healthcare, for one... it needs to be regulated, not run, by the government).

But this whole situation is making me embarrassed to be associated with any of them.

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