Happy Election Day but Why do I Feel So Sad and Mad?

I got a call last night, a robo call, asking me to vote no matter who I voted for, my vote was important.

I wish I could get into a conversation with the robo caller. I'd like to say to him to stop telling people to vote for just anyone and instead tell people to vote Democratic, just this one time, and let the Dems have a shot at fixing the country as the Repubs have had 12 years of running it into the ground.

Why, I ask myself, have average Americans decided that the Republican party best represents their issues and concerns? Whatever happened to the idea that Dems were for the working people and Repubs were for the rich?

Dems are going to raise taxes? Yes, they are --on the rich people who can well afford to pay taxes rather than get hefty tax breaks from the good old boys in their club.

We've got Republicans coming out of our collective arse and they're spending money like there's no tomorrow...(Oh, well, with Iran capable of making nuclear weapons...or should I spell that nucleer? -- maybe there won't be a tomorrow.)

How about a little balance in government for a change. How about electing some people with brains rather than family connections? How about electing someone who will represent me, a middle class woman who isn't rich, who is for choice, who is against torture, who is against invading other countries on lies or deception, who believes in democracy rather than theocracy or autocracy?

I am bummed because the Republican rhetoric seems to work.

"Activist judges"; "tax and spend Liberals"; "cut and run";"family values", like Dems don't have any of those...all have become the mantra of the Repubs and because the Democrats aren't as successful as coming up with phrases that will stick to people nor do they (except Lieberman) have the evil Rove to lead them down the path to hell (and not by good intentions), I fear for my country.

I'm not a Republican but I voted for Republicans in the past -- not now --I will never vote for another Republican until George Bush, Dick --and he is --Cheney and Karl Rove and that ilk are long gone from the political arena.

Unfortunately, unless Dems become better with lies, dirty tricks, secrecy and backroom deals, I fear that our country will be run by Republicans (I'm including Lieberman) from now on.

And that means that the war in Iraq will go on and on and on just as Bush said it would.

I also believe that if the Democrats had power and control over all three branches of the government and there were no opposing Republican voices to be heard for years, our country would not be as sound and good as if there were balance and both parties were part of the process.

To Rove I say: nice job with the Saddam Hussein verdict splashed across the papers since you have done such a good job connecting Saddam with 9/11 (no connection folks) that many people think this is marvelous.

Good job on the gas prices being lowered!

Good job on stifling American scientists so they are literally "run out of town" if they talk about global warming or stem cell research.

Good job in helping the doltish prez to keep his job while giving up our country's integrity.

I say vote, but unlike my robo caller, I say vote for Democrats and let the Republican Party know that they don't have a lock on the voters' loyalty and they are not above the law, and they aren't representing Americans who by a vast majority want to get out of the Iraqi civil war.

Rant over!