The Presidential Election

This election is really getting to people. First off let me tell you right up front that I am a Republican. I have been my entire voting career including my voting in Weekly Reader in school. I had the privilege of voting for Ronald Reagan for his second term. I missed voting for him the first time by five months. Over the years I have sat back and quietly voted because that is what we Republicans do. I don't know about others, but I don't feel the need to protest. I don't need to be out there acting out to get attention for my party. I find it sad and quite pathetic that people feel the need to do that. In my opinion those people just need to get a life.

My best friend is a Democrat. We are constantly teasing each other about how our parties would feel if they knew that we were best friends. If she had her choice Hilary would be running, but since she isn't she is backing her second choice Obama. I am backing my first choice McCain. We don't agree with each others choice, but we totally respect each others choice. I do not feel the need to change her mind and she does not feel the need to change my mind. Neither one of us feels the need to put the others choice down. We see enough of that in the media, both the very large liberal and the very small conservative media. (We do agree on the media issue) I find it totally cool about her that she can admit that there is a whole lot more liberal media outlets than for Republican media.

We are also both back in college after many years away. We both see how the liberal edge is in all the colleges. I have professors mention little snippets about the election all the time. I have yet to find a Republican professor yet at this new college. I had quite a few at my last college. I guess what bothers me about this is that the majority of the minds the professors are teaching are young and impressionable. I just don't feel like there is free will. That scares me a bit. It is like they want these robotic answers and no thinking. I haven't asked my friend yet if she sees what I see. I would like to know what the other side thinks about it without prejudice. I know I will get that with her.

My Poly-Sci professor asked us the other day if we had seen Palin's speech the night before. He then laughed right behind the question and continued on with his lecture. He did not want to know what we thought. He just wanted to put it out there that he thought it was funny, not serious....just funny. I actually said later in the lecture when I could that I enjoyed her speech. That it was a fresh approach and that it was a nice change. He didn't really like that and stated that he didn't agree. I didn't care, at least those impressionable minds heard another opinion if only for that one fleeting moment. I guess you could call that my attempt at protesting!!

I will be glad when this election is over. Until then my friend and I will sit back and watch all the craziness around us.