It was a difficult thing to do, because I think Obama has been a horrible President. I certainly don't agree with him on moral issues, and if I thought for nano-second that voting for Romney would have meant the end of abortion and a ban on same sex marriage, I would have voted for him. But there have been three Republican Presidents, and at times they had control of at least one chamber of Congress, and in the first two years of the last Bush Administration, Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress, yet Republicans did nothing about the moral issues. This tells me that the leaders of the Republican Party really don't care about these moral issues.
Next, is the economy. Conservative talkers like to blame the entire national debt on Obama, when in fact it is cumulative. Republicans are just as responsible for the national debt as Democrats are. And I didn't see any great change in that direction with Romney-Ryan. Their plans did not include eliminating costly departments like Education, Homeland Security and Interior, just to name a few. All they seem to want to cut is aid to the poor. Nor did they ever say they would keep us out of costly and unconstitutional wars. They practically promised to take us to war with Iran. In my opinion, I believe the Federal Budget would have been just as bloated under Romney-Ryan as it was under GW Bush and Obama.
Since I didn't see any major changes morally or economically I thought a second term for Obama while the Constitutional conservatives once again gained control of the Republican Party, hopefully by 2016, would not be as bad as, potentially, eight years of Romney-Ryan, potentially followed by a Ryan Presidency. The thought of that scared me.
No major changes, so why vote for Obama? The Republican Party has a cancer growing inside of it, and I refuse to vote for Republicans that are part of that cancer. That cancer is a selfish capitalism based on the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand was an anti-christian atheist whose philosophy resembled more of Hitler than our Constitution. And this philosophy is growing inside the Republican Party. It's not the Jews this philosophy is against, but rather the poor. Ayn Rand said, in an interview Mike Wallace in 1959, that the poor do not deserve love. It's no coincidence that Paul Ryan, and other Republicans like him want to make massive cuts in Entitlements. Ayn Rand believed that the poor should just die. And I can see this philosophy growing in the Republican Party, largely due to the tea party. Many of them have this philosophy.
This philosophy that is growing in the Republican Party is far worse than what Obama represents, and that is why I voted for Obama. And I will never vote for a Republican again, unless I know them personally, until the Republican Party excises the cancer I just explained.
This philosophy of Ayn Rand is diametrically opposite the philosophy of Christ. Yet, I have found that many who profess to be Christians support candidates that espouse this philosophy. And this philosophy would be harmful to the poor in America. And that is why I, as a Christian, voted for Obama.
