So its a party...

The Republican party. Yes I am a state delegate to the Utah Republican party. I am not a Kool-aid drinker...OK so I like Kool-aid, but I won't drink it because someone tells me too. I like to look at all sides of an issue. I am not a straight party voter. (Don't tell some of my 'friends' from the convention that though. I may be run out as a wolf in sheep's clothing). I'm really not though. At today's convention there were a few things repeatedly brought up that were labeled as Republican values, thoughts or ideals.

1. Limited Government

2. Strong Military

3. Personal Accountability~Ability

I believe in all of those things. Sometimes I have differing opinions when it comes down to the nitty gritty details, but that is to be expected. Just some thoughts about today's convention.

* I was stunned to meet my new 'friend' Richard who doesn't think women should hold political offices. I'm not sure to what extent, but he didn't think a woman should be a senator because they are 'often too emotional and have a hard time making tough decisions.' After expressing my astonishment. I argued that women have to make tough decisions all the time, and are easily as qualified as men to run. I argued that we aren't in such a 'great' place politically with the men we have elected. Really...woman shouldn't serve? Should we not vote either? Where do we get these throwbacks?

*We had to vote for a rule change so we could allow a 'reasonable' amount of balloons. What is a reasonable amount of balloons?

*A resolution to move the resolutions to earlier on the agenda (before all the politicians talk) was voted down. Who votes that down? As far as I can tell the resolutions never fully get looked at because stuck at the end of the agenda, we either loose a majority of the quorum or we are simply 'too tired' as the reason was stated last year to vote on them. Of course this year's resolutions had some really important things like voting to send a resolution to congress to support doing away with the Federal Reserve and return to a commodity backed currency. Not sure that's going to fly in today's high-tech economy. But alas, I will never know since I had to leave before the resolutions were debated.

*We had an excellent guest speaker. Ken Blackwell former secretary of Ohio and Mayor of Cincinnati. He brought a message of helping people understand their potential rather then settling for a handout. It was a very good speech and I had no problems giving him a standing ovation. There is so much hand clapping going on at these occasions sometimes it is not always sincere, this was.

*It is really hard to pick a candidate....sometimes they all seem like shades of gray and there is no way to tell whether you are getting the real low down on a candidate. Smear handouts, claims of misrepresentations and outright lies abound. Who to believe? I won't tell you my method for deciding.

All in all it was a political convention, a strange animal, an interesting experience~~~But very AMERICAN. And I'm all about America.