From outside the box

I'm getting a little sick of politics. I'll be glad when this election is over and I can move on to other topics. I'm sure a few other bloggers feel the same way. Besides that, I wonder if anything that anybody says about politics has an affect on anybody that reads it. When it comes to politics, I think everybody has a pretty good idea about where they stand long before the debates roll around. I think that most bloggers, with the exception of those who reach thousands of readers, are either preaching to the choir or just trying to piss off the few who would read them that disagree with them.

On the other hand, now and then, everybody has something to say that others have not thought about. That's the beauty of putting your thoughts out there as well as getting the input from readers. Personally, I love it when somebody says something that makes me change my mind about something. I especially love it when it comes from somebody I happen to disagree with a lot. I guess it makes me think that I'm not completely set in my ways. It's happened with a politics quite a bit over the years. I certainly don't have all the answers, although I tend to lean towards issues and ideas that have proven themselves in the past and lean away from issues and ideas that have proven not to work.

I guess that's the bottom line for me in this election and the reason I support Barak Obama. I certainly do not support every bleeding heart liberal idea that has come along over the years. In fact, as I've said before, fundamentally, I think the conservatives have a sound and logical philosophy, they just quit practicing it. In fact, I don't know when they ever did. I find myself looking to the democratic leadership to shrink government, get government out of people's personal lives, and practice fiscal spending. These have always been the main tenets of the republican party (practiced in theory but not in reality) and now they are up for grabs. I hope the democrats latch onto them because these are the philosophies and root ideas that make America strong, we just need a party who is in control to practice them. The republicans had their chance and they blew it. If the democrats blow it, if they fail to reduce the size of government and control runaway spending, they will loose me next time around. I'm sure there will be a whole lot of us fiscal conservative/social liberals who will be looking for a third party to represent us. We shall see.