What’s it like to be a Republican in 2012?  Embarrassing, Scary, Ashamed, Humiliated, Bewildered, ……….. I’m running out of adjectives here. My vocabulary is limited, so, feel free to throw-in any other words that come to your mind.  I need help (some people will say in more ways than one) when did my Republican party, that I knew for decades, become the GOP we see today?

Where is the “Hooray, Hooray USA”?  Where is GOD in our society?  What happened to family values?  What the H*** is a same sex marriage?  Why can’t we close our borders?  Why do I have to learn a foreign language in my own country, just so some illegal can communicate with me?  And what happened to “THIS IS AMERICA, WE WORSHIP GOD, WE WAVE THE RED, WHITE, AND BLUE, AND WE SPEAK ENGLISH…….LOVE IT, OR LEAVE IT”.

Now, I’m not sitting here trying to blame all of this on the Republican Party, but they all played a hand in it.  Where are the “Eisenhowers’, Nixons’, Reagans’ of decades ago?  The men who loved this country, what it stands for, and the people in it.  The current GOP is split (partly because of the “tea party”), has no sense of direction, is way too far to the center and left, and has lost contact with the American public.  They don’t seem to care about what it is that we want, it’s what they want.

I became a Republican in 1954.  I was seven years old at the time.  Didn’t know a darn thing about politics, but, all of my family were Republicans. That was good enough for me. Besides, the symbol for the Democrats is a donkey, and I liked being an elephant better.  Big, strong, larger than life, mammal that symbolized the Republican party, and what it stood for.  I know what you’re thinking right now, “Ol’ Freds’ been a Jackass most of his life”.  And, you’re probably right, but that has nothing to do with my political party affiliation.

So, here we are in 2012.  The Republican party is up against the Democratic, radical, insensitive, far left Obama-ism regime for the next President of the United States.  The Republican party has to pull together and nominate the candidate that can bring down this out-of-control, far-left, Marxist-style man and his administration.  Here they are, the cream-of-the-crop, the top-notch, the first-rate, the highest quality candidates that the Republicans can assemble:

ü Mitt Romney – Ex-governor who almost broke his state financially,  authorized the highest health costs in the nation, and, next to California, is the most liberal state in the union.

ü Newt Gingrich – Ex Speaker of the House, thinks he is the second coming of Ronald Reagan (which he is not), doesn’t appear to be the same man who in 1994 was pushing term limits, tax cuts. welfare reform, and a host of other proposals.

ü Rick Santorum – Ex-Congressman, and ex-Senator, quite possibly the best candidate, excellent voting record, speaks with authority and knowledge, but lacks money and support from the old school Republicans.

ü Ron Paul – Ex-Congressman, good track record, good beliefs, good ideas, good family man, but…….not a chance in H***.

Well, there ya go.  My Republican party at it’s finest.  If we can get through the name-calling. mud-slinging, money-grabbing, lying, cheating primaries, we will have our candidate for the most respected political office in the world, the President of the United States.

I’m embarrassed.