I tell people that all the time, my Mother was a Democrat and my Father was a Republican, I was born a Republican, I've always identified with them, I never identified with Democrats, I was freaking single digits and I was rooting for Nixon, to my Mothers horror I cried when Nixon resigned, I cried when I couldn't vote for Reagan the 1st time because I wasn't old enough. I love Rush and Conservative talk radio because they agree with me. These people will never get that though...."
Mom was a Goldwater Republican. She gave me one of his brochures when I was a kid.
I actually read it.
Dad comes from a long line of FDR/Truman Democrats.
None of his candidates' brochures were worth reading.
Naturally, the marriage didn't last. But Mom's politics made sense.
And Dad's didn't.
I love my old man, but I don't know how in the Hell he could have voted for Obama.
I normally vote Republican. But in 1996, 2000 & 2004, I voted Libertarian for Prez.
In 08, I would have voted McCain. But I was out of the country. He won my state easily anyway.
But I'm a REAL small-Federal Government/States' Rights Conservative.
And I don't like a lot of the big government Neocon crap that the GOP has sometimes embraced.
I think America can survive Obama. But I'm not sure it can survive the idiots who elected him.