Hey Republicans; We're Not Perfect

Whether it's your daughter's wedding or a political rally, not everyone there will leave you feeling entirely comfortable.  But, hopefully, all will share your core values.  I believe Republican's core values include fiscal responsibility and an awareness of the importance of free markets.  This country took this path before really understanding fully how it was benefitting from relatively free markets.  Indeed, it was not until Milton Friedman came along that we began to understand why free markets were so important.

That's why I'm a Republican.  I feel that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand this far better than Obama and Biden.  It's why I feel the Republicans will be able to re-ignite America's growth rate and force unemployment back down to 3%.

I also feel that Romney and Ryan understand the threat to America's culture from Islamic fundamentalism far better than Obama and Biden.  For the Democrats, all religions are more or less the same.  And, there's a sliver of truth to this.  All religions have secular followers and truly orthodox followers.  But, there remains a particular distinction to be made with regards to Islam that liberals just don't get.  Most other religions have learned to live together.  Here in the U.S., Christians and Jews and various other religions live together more or less amicably.  None of our religions, as far as I know, has the ambition to place their religion above all others in this country.  Only fundamentalist Muslims harbor such an ambition whether here in the States or in whatever country in Europe to which they may have immigrated.

In our Republican tent, we happened to be joined by Republicans with values which present me with a problem.  First, there's the attitude of many Republicans with regard to gun laws, or the absence thereof.  I say "first," because to me it's so obvious.We once had a law regarding the prohibition of assault weapons.  It expired.  Why don't we simply vote it back in again?   Also, if we have vehicle registration, why not gun registration?

My other problem with many Republicans is that they are comfortable with encouraging the redefinition  of when birth occurs and the status of fetuses.  I understand why they wish to do so.  They feel it's God's will.  But, other's understand God's will differently.  So, why not just leave it.  To force a girl to give birth when she is clearly not interested in doing so seems to me to be extraordinarily cruel.  And, it troubles me that people would invoke God's name in  perpetrating such cruelty.

But, for me, the No. 1 problem is the state of our economy.  Here we clearly need a new direction and I believe Romney and Ryan can and will deliver