Rant #1,635: My Choice For President

Even though it is just late March, and we have roughly seven months to go before our Presidential election, it is time for me to make my choice, the person who I want to lead this great land of ours.

I figured it was time, because actor Scott Baio made his choice for the world to see, and it created a firestorm and an uproar on Facebook.

If he can make his choice, I can too.

Personally, if you got so riled up with Baio's choice--Donald Trump--then I feel sorry for you, whether you are voting Republican or Democrat, but that is another story.

Personally, I look at our country, and we really are at something of a crossroads.

We are still a country that the world has to take seriously, but it seems, at least to me, that we aren't what we once were.

We have taken at least a step back, if not a leap back, from where we once were.

And a lot of that has to do with our beliefs and values.

We simply aren't where we once were with those things, too.

We accept too much as being "normal." We justify things and behaviors that are simply lifestyle choices, and in the worst case scenarios, are sicknesses.

The country is also full of strife. I have not seen such divisions since the early 1960s, and it has truly separated our country into pieces.

And you know what they say, "United we stand, divided we fall," and today, we are a severely divided country on a number of key issues.

I also have to look at myself and my family, and if we are better off than we were before our current leader was elected.

And for the naysayers, I have done this analysis of myself and my family for years, so it is nothing new to me.

I have not had a raise in going on nine years. My family was hurt by Obamacare, and we are now paying premiums for our insurance that we never had to pay before, or at levels we never had to pay before.

Yes, gas prices are down, but they are just about canceled out by the fact that all other prices, including grocery prices, are way, way up.

My son graduated high school was a certificate, rather than a diploma, because of Common Core educational principles, something I very strongly disagree with. Kids are human beings, not test-taking robots, but Common Core would prefer the latter over the former.

My son also had a tough time finding work when he got out of school. With so many programs for the disabled being cut, thank God he found one that was still around, and while he is gainfully employed, the best he could get was a part-time job, albeit with a very good company.

Personally, I see the world around me crumbling, run by the Internet and those who believe that we need mind control rather than clear thinking to make our own decisions.

The rise of the PC Police is astonishing, and it all goes back to what I said before. Things that are accepted today would never had been accepted as "normal" at any other time in our history.

And for these reasons, for what it is worth--less than Scott Baio's opinion, I am sure--I throw my support for the next President of the United States behind--

Whoever gets the Republican nod.

Notice, I did not say Donald Trump, or Ted Cruz, or whoever, because I think we are going to have to wait a while to find out who that is.

There are deep divisions in this party as to who should be their candidate to challenge for the top job in the country.

I feel that that is because Donald Trump has thrown convention on its ear, and is not part of the political old boys club that says you have to be a politician to be our President.

Funny, Harry Truman was not really a politician, either, but he did just fine in the top spot. How soon people forget.

But anyway, I must support the Republicans, because I believe that four more years of Democrats in the White House simply continues what we have now, and I, personally, don't like what I see, and I don't like what we have experienced the past eight years.

I think that the bottom line is that we need a return to real, solid values, and I do not believe that the Democrats can provide that to us.

I do believe that the Republicans can.

I am not a big fan of the Republican candidates, and I do not support everything that they propose and say and do.

But I think of it almost as a vote against the Democrats, a vote against the past eight years, if I vote Republican, and if I need to, I will hold my nose when I cast my ballot in November.

I believe it is a necessary vote, because without a Republican in the Oval Office, we will continue down the path we have been going on for the past eight years, and the operative word there is down.

I would rather go up than down, and I feel that we can only do that with the Republicans.

And if you know me, you know that I never voted for Reagan, I only voted for the combined Bushes one time--because my voting place could not provide me the opportunity to vote for a write-in candidate, as the voting booths broke down while I was there, so I had to use a paper ballot when we were still using machines on Long Island--so voting Republican is never a clear-cut thing for me, certainly not as an Independent voter who has voted for candidates in all the major parties.

I have voted for Democrats, I have chosen write-in candidates; in fact, I have rarely voted for a Republican for the top spot in all my years of voting.

But this time around, I feel that it is a necessary thing to do, and I must do it.

So, for whatever it is worth, I will vote Republican when November comes.

I feel that I don't have much of a choice.

But most importantly, when November comes, exercise your right to vote, no matter who the candidates are.

It is very important to vote; it is exercising a right that our forefathers fought for, and that people over the world fight for in their own respective countries too.

So at least vote. You don't have to agree with a word I said here, but if you vote, you are all right by me.

So if you are not registered, become so, and vote.

See you tomorrow, and in November.