10 Reasons to Vote Republican

I don't agree with all of the Republican policy. If you have read posts in the past you might find me a bit further right wing than your typical Red-State republican. Regardless of my political opinion, look at these 10 reasons to vote red this year, or rather, why NOT be blue!

1. National Security: While the (R) has authorized the NSA to listen in when Al-Qaeda comes a calling. Vote in a (D) and your doomed! Dem's have threatened repeal the patriot act, close Guantanamo thus freeing known terrorist combatants, and give your security back to the FBI who so famously failed us on 911. (Not to mention a withdrawal from Iraq certain to insure a civil war and reinstatement of a totalitarian militant Islamic state)
2. Economy: The (D) candidate will like you to believe the economy is is sad shape. If that is the case then they must be against low unemployment, a booming stock market, record high home-ownership, and steady economic growth. They just don't want to admit the tax policy of the administration is what sparked our economic recovery. Could you imagine how strong our economy would be today had we not had to pay for 911, the war on terror, and the destruction from Katrina? (Oh, forgot those are all Bush's fault right?)
3. Immigration: I don't give any Republican a passing grade on immigration reform, but if I was the dean of students for the congress, all the Democrats would be expelled! Unfortunately on this issue I am voting for party that will do the least damage to our nation when in comes to ILLEGAL immigration. Let's face it. While the (R)'s must be catering to the cheap labor lobby, the (D)'s are amplifying the ILLEGAL issue by granting entitlements from free health care to food stamps and education benefits to people who crashed the party.
4. TAXES! : Do I have to elaborate? We know the Republicans are for lower taxes, but don't be fooled when the CRATS claim they only plan to raise taxes on the rich. They routinely raise taxes, regulation, and fees on business that employ YOU. When business has more burden, less revenue goes to labor, less labor = layoffs! Lower taxes don't just create more personal wealth, it also helps create jobs.
   
5. Health Care: My health care costs between insurance and co-pays are my 3rd highest expense, right next to my home and transportation. This would be higher on 10 reasons if I was not afraid of a dirty bomb delivered by Islam or getting taxed to death. Wait... my 4th expense, I forgot about TAXES. The "demon-cats" plan consists of government regulation to a national health care program sure to burden our medical system with more bureaucracy, more layers, and more scrutiny than it already receives from the lawyers and insurance companies. The problem with rising costs of health care is the legal system threatening to sue doctors out of business, and the pharmaceutical industry claiming you need a prescription from everything from fatigue to sore feet. Hold back the pill pushers and the malpractice lawyers and let medicine heal itself. Vote Republican and tell your rep to pass tort reform!
6. Education: Charter schools, choice in education through voucher programs, and giving the local control and power to administrators and school boards to actually run there own schools is the solution. Republicans in this issue are the champions of choice. Democrats continue to cater to teacher's unions, and bureaucrats that mismanage funds, and put our tax dollars in the pockets of administrators and studies rather than in education. More money is not the solution to our national education crisis. This is one model we SHOULD be taking from European countries where the money goes with the student, not the teacher.
7. Energy: Thanks to regulations and policy long in place by the liberal green peace activists we can't drill for our own oil so we depend on others. If we want to free up our resources to develop alternate fuels, we first need to free up our own resources so we don't' have to play politics with the middle east. Democrats repeatedly shut down prospects of off-shore drilling, Alaska oil exploration, and proven nuclear technology advances. Again while Dem's reverence Europe on social policy, they ignore energy policy success in country's like Germany and France where nuclear power is safe, plentiful and considered GREEN! In the USA now even hydroelectric renewable energy is being labeled taboo, and no longer supported in our future national energy strategy. Biodiesel and Ethanol are growing prospects but currently we subsidize so much of this industry it is unclear if there are net energy gains after you cultivate and process the bio fuels, especially if we push this energy alternative too quickly. (Another story for later) Bottom line, the Dem's had 8 years to work on our energy policy and failed, and have been a roadblock in congress for the last 6 in passing a conservative energy policy.
8. National Debt: While the only legitimate talking point by the democratic party is the drastic upswing of our national debt, this is correcting itself by a conservative fiscal policy and the income growth is boosting revenue even more than projected by the tax cuts. Had the economy remained stagnant using a liberal economic model, we would have either #1 not funded any of the crisis's of the past 6 years (911, War, Katrina Relief) or #2 been in a worse deficit than today. It will never be admitted but the reduction in deficit during the Clinton administration was more luck than policy. The economic growth was the result of the prior administration, and the lack of any major national financial obligation allowed us to reduce our federal deficit. We are on path to do that again, provided we don't let our guard down and let 911 happen again.
9. Family Values: The entertainment industry has everything to gain if Nancy Pelosi gets nominated speaker of the house. Porn in every household should be her platform, and privacy rights for every pornographer and child molester in the country is her priority. Well not in those direct words but you won't find any Democrats out there championing to protect family values. Here in Oregon, the liberal majority wants 13 year olds to get abortions without parental consent, they want to grant marriage licenses to gay, lesbian, and transgendered individuals, and afford them adoption rights, all while claiming that the right wingers are discriminating against good Americans. What happens in your bedroom is your business, but when you start demanding health care benefits, and want marriage to amount to nothing more than a union between two consenting adults I draw the line. What's next, do we grant marriage to a guy who wants to marry his dog, so his heath insurance will cover the dog's veterinary bills?
10. Crime & Punishment: The Democrats have the crime part right, but don't expect a liberal congress to champion for victims rights, unless the victim is a gay illegal immigrant who was the subject of sexual and racial discrimination when applying for a child care position at the local grade school. We put executives in prison while we catch and release child rapists. COME ON, look will your candidate rather fund a prison or a methadone clinic?

Your not voting for Bush this election, your voting for YOU and your FAMILY. So I close with one of my favorite tips this year: Don't F**K It up!