To me, it has nothing to do with party, it's all about your ideals. These days, Republicans can be conservative or liberal.  I don't give a fig for a Republican who votes for or supports liberals.  A liberal is a liberal, no matter what party name they use.

I will only vote for conservatives, and I have a ton of reasons for that.  I anyone else out there is actually a conservative, you already know my reasons.  I don't see the need to reiterate them here.  Either you believe in your country, or you don't.  It's very simple folks.

If you are thinking of voting for either Obama or Clinton, then you most likely believe that all our country's problems can be solved through more government interaction with it's citizens.  I happen to believe the opposite.

I know this gets said pretty much every 2 years, but I think this might be the most critical election I've ever voted in.  I'm 44 years old, and I've voted in several now.  It's not just the presidential election, because it looks like unless a miracle happens, there will be a liberal in the White House in 2009.  I suppose I'll vote for McCain, but then again, if there is a viable third party candidate, I'll probably not vote for McCain.

The real fight that conservatives need to win is in the House and Senate, and in the state and local elections.  This country is in large part conservative, I believe, but for the most part we are being represented by professional politicians who don't care about much of anything except getting re-elected.  American is standing on a precipice, and now is when we have to take back our streets, our schools, our law enforcement departments, our city and county and state governments.  Those of us who believe in values such as self reliance and protecting our borders need to step it up a notch.  We can't leave it to our neighbors to do our jobs for us.  We need to vote, but we need to carefully research whom we vote for.

In this internet age, there is more and more information available about the candidates.  Most of them, even on a local level have web sites.  We need to take the time and look at as much information as we can digest and vote with care.  I'm tired of seeing RINO's (Republicans In Name Only) and CINO's (Conservatives In Name Only) elected to office, only to buy into liberal scams as a way of becoming popular with the media or the liberals themselves.  In my opinion there is nothing wrong with partisan politics when it means choosing between right and wrong.  Washington D.C. seems to eventually pollute the minds and morals of even the most honest politicians, and I believe we need to keep that in mind before we vote for an incumbent again.  Case in point:  Lindsay Graham used to be my Congressman here in South Carolina, and I thought he did a great job.  I voted for him when he ran for Senate, but I'll not be voting for Senator Graham again.  Graham has bought into the John McCain theory of compromise politics, and I now find it hard to believe that he ever was a true conservative.

Schools are a particularly important issue in my opinion.  Our government run schools are doing a very poor job of educating our children, and the problem grows worse every single year.  I'm not blaming the teachers, because most of them seem to be at least competent in their jobs.  I do blame administrators though, for allowing our children to be fed a liberal agenda that just gets worse every day.  There are some exceptions, but even here in the red state of SC, we have many liberals in high powered positions in education.  I've seen some great teachers, and I've seen some who basically just try to keep the kids busy enough to behave, without really teaching them anything.  I've seen administrators who felt that teaching political correctness was more important than teaching math, or English, or history, or science.  I've asked 16 and 17 year old kids, who made really good grades, to point out to me on a map of the world the location of the United States, or on a map of the US, where South Carolina was.  A disturbing number of them didn't have a clue.  On the US map, I was as likely to see fingers pointing at Oklahoma as I was to see them pointing to any state in the southeast.  I've asked some of these same students what a preposition was, and probably half thought it was a legal term, not a term having anything to do with grammar.  By the time I got around to math, well, they were pretty bored.

The point I'm trying to make is that our children will one day be voters, and with such a poor education, how can they be expected to make wise decisions when it comes to pulling the lever?  When your average 18 year old doesn't know the difference between the 100 Years War and World War II, how will they have a clue as to who is more qualified to defend the country?  Apparently an 18 year old is considered old enough to have a job and pay the government a lot of their hard earned money in taxes, but they aren't deserving of a proper education.  Education must be a priority, or this country will simply cease to exist as we know it now.

This year, state and local elections are very important.  It might be time to tune out all the rhetoric that will be spewing from the mouths of McCain, Clinton, and Obama, and start listening to what the local politicians are saying.  We need to start taking the country back from the liberals, city by city, county by county, and state by state.  It all starts at home.

Democrats, acting as the mouthpiece of Islamic terrorist groups, gladly sound the alarm.  The Christians are coming!  The Conservatives are coming!  Christians and Conservatives will rape your wives, husbands and children!  Help!

As usual, the Main Stream Media continues to hype up the bloated thoughts of the Leftists in this country.  CNN and MSNBC continue to spin the comments of Jeremiah Wright as acceptable, when, in actuality, it's racist, anti-American pap.  The MSM continues to spin B. Hussein Obama as the savior that he clearly is not.  He's a savior only for hatred.  If you want America to be consumed by hatred, then Barry is your man.

Meanwhile, other Democrats attempt to ignore the entire racist deal.  They blame Fox news for over hyping what has to be seen as nothing but a minor blurp in a brilliant campaign by Obama.  Democrats have long accused Republicans and Conservatives of being racist, but I've not heard the utter hatred and racism espoused by the former Obama adviser since I was about 6 years old.  As has been true in this country for 30 plus year, the true racists are not the Republicans, but the left leaning Democrats, with their open support of racist warlords such as the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and the most upright Al Sharpton.  These people are not about change, they want to keep the black race down in America.  They want them to keep hating white people, because hatred for these people equals power.

We already know that liberals hate all religion.  In their minds, people should never have to pay for their sins. People should never have to atone for their mistakes.  In this liberal wasteland that America has become, there is not love.  There is only more hatred.  Hand it to Liberalism.  It's the quickest way to anarchy.

Liberals hate America for a variety of reasons.  Everyone of them hates this country completely.  Keep that in mind when you pull the lever this November.

First of all, I am a 44 year old computer hardware professional by trade.  I have been a conservative my entire adult life, and am not a member of any political party.

I do not contribute to any political campaigns or candidates.  I figure that if I ever meet a political candidate that I truly believe in, I will contribute to his or her campaign.  So far I've never met a candidate personally that I would give money to.

I voted for Reagan twice.  Ronald Reagan was the greatest president in my lifetime, in my opinion.  As for the current presidential campaign, I suppose I will vote for McCain, but not because I really want to.  He's just a better choice to run the country than Obama or Clinton, both of whom I'm quite certain are capable of destroying this nation.

More to come soon!