It’s Not About Them

I love it when I hear those so called independents opine on about how they want to hear the candidates say something specific so as to change their minds one way or another. They ramble on as if they are some sort of intellectuals waiting for words that will sway them toward one or another candidate. These people must live under a rock or something if they think that what the candidates say this week is important enough to sway them.

The reality is this—the candidates are backed by certain interest groups that want something in return for their backing. That is what you are voting for, not some bullshit that they say in the debates or what they really stand for. They stand for what the people that back them want.

Having said that, let’s look at the people backing the candidates. Obama has my vote because he is backed by progressives that think somewhat like I do. I say somewhat because I am way to the left of him, however, he is the closest to my thinking. Mr. Romney on the other hand has advanced to where he is because of the backing of tea party conservative types that have an agenda that is regressive and not progressive. Whether Mr. Romney is for abortion or against it, for condoms or against them, for marriage equality or against it, for wars all over the planet or against it is irrelevant. It’s what the people that back him want, believe me. They felt that they were screwed over by Bush and they will not let it happen again.

It is clear Mr. and Ms. Independents, you are voting for the party behind the man and not the man. Have you read the Republican platform? Try it out for size. See whether you want to live in their world, a world that only exists in their minds or maybe in Kansas.