R is for Republican

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This is one that I am really wrestling with. Sylvia, if you're reading this, the pride will overwhelm you. :)

I used to be a card carrying Republican. I have always voted issues, not party, but the party I was best represented by was the Republican party. Four Years ago, on a whim, I registered myself as Independent, because I was wavering on who to support. I was OK with that registration. However, this election, I feel at times I'm stuck voting for the lesser of the two evils. I will never register myself as a Democrat, that much I know. But I will most likely be voting Democrat this election year.

I ran into a friend this week, at the gym. Bea has been politically active for years. She's a Democrat. We have discussed politics from day one. The other day, while swimming laps, she hopped in my lane and asked why I looked so angry. I told her I was not angry, just bothered. I'd been considering/pondering the election and coming to terms with the fact that I am going to vote Democrat for the first time in my life.  She laughed at me. I am taking this very seriously. Maybe more than I should. While others will not even bother to cast a ballot, I am feeling like the whole election system might be altered by my vote.  Stupid, huh?

Bea invited me to a big shindig, that's going on tonight. Part of me really wants to go. I spent years being very politically active, and involved. I love politics. I also hate them. But almost every event I have been to, has been Republican in nature. Only since working for a Democratic Mayor have I opened my eyes a bit to the Democratic issues too. I love the political life. However, the shindig I am invited to by her is being put on by Representative Jo Carson (AR). I really, really want to go. But I just can't make myself go to this, because it's a celebration as a result of the DNC.  I just can't make myself celebrate voting Democrat.

OK, that does it, pity party over. I gotta get off this subject, I am over thinking it.

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