I'm not a particularly political-minded person. Don't get me wrong, I like to keep up on the current issues and exercise my right to vote on a regular basis. I just don't care for the "politics" of politics. I also don't care for the hurt feelings that tend to happen when people have differing opinions on the matter at hand. Because of this, I wasn't going to say anything about the Presidential election that's happening today. But I feel that I must. So here's your warning: political opinions are expressed below.
I voted for Mitt Romney. I stood in line with my two youngest children for 20 minutes, checked in, received my voting ticket and voted. I contemplated waiting to vote til I could go by myself; no children. But as I thought about it, I decided that I wanted my children to see me vote for various reasons. I made the right decision because Tater Tot was quit sad that he didn't get to "bote" too.
I voted for Mitt Romney for several different reasons. I'd like to share those reasons with you on the small off chance that one person might be reading this undecided. I know it's highly unlikely to happen but I'm doing it just the same.
1. I voted for Mitt Romney because I believe that he has a better grasp at how our economy works. While the economy wasn't in the best shape when President Obama came into office, he has shown his lack of understanding by more than doubling our national debt in just a few years. The national debt incurred by President Obama alone is greater than the debt incurred by all of the other 42 Presidents of the United States of America. For some reason he thought it was advisable to put our country into more debt to pull our economy out of the recession than was needed to be incurred to pull our nation's economy out of the Great Depression. I don't believe that the debt President Obama incurred was justifiable based on the current state of our economy at this time. In fact, President Obama's actions goes against all tenants of our free market economy.
2. I voted for Mitt Romney because I believe in the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman. That being said, I do not think people who are homosexual are bad people. I don't. They are like any other socio-economic group of people, they range from amazing to not-nice-at-all. While I believe that marriage should be reserved for a man and a woman, I also believe that those in the LGBT community should be able to have some legal rights in relationships as well. I support civil unions for anyone in the LGBT community who wants to make that long-term commitment. Because of this belief and President Obama's approval of gay marriage, I support Mitt Romney.
These are just two reasons out of several of why I voted for Mitt Romney. If you want to know more, ask me.
If you take nothing else from this post, please vote. Whatever you believe or whoever you think is the best candidate for the job, vote. Voting is a precious gift that we have. Please use it.
Ella
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