Party Abominations: Who Are You?

Party Abominations: Who Are You?
Written by Noel Sheppard
Saturday, May 06, 2006

It’s May 2006…do you know who your party is? It's not that easy to tell anymore, is it?

After all, if you’re a Republican, your representatives have increased federal spending by an amazing 45 percent in the past five years--something you might support for its Keynesian stimulus, or just tacitly accept--while enacting the largest increase to an entitlement program in almost four decades. It's something that you may have supported to help your president’s re-election chances even though entitlement programs are against everything your party stands for.

Of course, if you’re a Democrat, your faithful voted for a war resolution against a country that didn’t attack America--something you were for at the time, but, like most of your elected officials, now fervently avow you were duped!--while voting against enacting one of the largest increases to an entitlement program in almost four decades. It's something that you were against at the time even though entitlement programs are the bread and butter of your party and one of the reasons you’ve remained a Democrat all these years.

“And the beards have all grown longer overnight!”

Welcome to America’s major political parties in the new millennium: neither stands for what it did two decades ago; both stand for virtually nothing you can hang your hat on today. At the very least, you’d think all this political cross-dressing would have resulted in a newfound unity breaking out all over. You’d be wrong.

Instead, the polls show an overwhelming majority of Americans are disappointed with the president’s performance, while a virtually identical percentage believes the nation is on the wrong track. And, there’s an even greater disrespect for legislators than the president regardless of which side of the aisle they sit.

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Ah yes the never ending paradox of American politics! Nothing is ever what it seems and you can't tell the Republicans from the Democrats without a play book and the play book was written by an 'expert' who does not have a clue! Once upon a time I was a Democrat and then they abandoned me! Then I began describing myself just as a political Conservative and mostly voted for Republicans. Now the Republicans have deserted me and many so called Conservative Republicans rant about how myself and others 'aren't loyal to the Party'. Well hello there I'm not a Republican and the Republican Party said it was based on core Conservative values. (Note: Giving the nation away to non-citizens is in no way Conservative) That turned out to be a lie of the first water and now I'm left with no political party to vote for.

There are many others like myself who now wander the wilderness crying out for someone or something to appear on the scene that will give us hope for a 'real Consecrative Party'. The pickings are slim indeed my friends and I'm filled with sadness, gloom, and despair.

What I would really like to see appear on all ballots is 'NOTA' which would stand for 'None Of The Above' so that we the voters could really show our contempt for what passes for political choice in this nation. If 'NOTA' garnered 51% of any vote the vote would be called null and void and a new vote taken with all the old candidates from the previous vote forbidden to run in the new vote. We would continue to do this if 'NOTA' kept getting 51% of the vote or until we finally had some real choices in this nation. 'NOTA' would have the added attraction of not being associated with any political party and would thus represent the real feelings of the voters.

When you have no choices except 'outrageous' and 'just plain stupid' you really don't have any choices at all.