Tomorrow is November 6th--a day many of us have been awaiting for several years. I work in a heavily liberal Democrat district of the United States. El Paso County, Texas voted for George W. Bush when he ran for his second term as governor, but Bush did not carry the county during his two presidential runs, although he easily carried the rest of the state. In fact, I cannot remember El Paso County voting for a Republican candidate for president at any time during the past twenty-four years that I have been voting in presidential elections. But even here, in this stronghold of liberalism, Romney-Ryan signs are appearing throughout the area. I am also seeing a number of professionally made signs saying some variation of "This is my business; I did build it," coupled with or without Romney Ryan signs. Yesterday on my way to church I noticed a new banner sign posted at a business that read in part, "I built this business without any help from the government." That sentence was followed by a crass, unprintable suggestion to President Obama. The tone of the banners and the whispered conversations of my clients who reluctantly tell me that they are not going to vote for Obama indicate to me that there is a huge amount of anxiety, concern and discontentment in the business community and in our society at large.
During the month of October, I wrote a series of posts on various reasons why I am voting FOR Mitt Romney tomorrow and not just Against Barack Obama. I am completely opposed to Obama's policies--not just in terms of the anti-business practices that he is using to crush the small business community, or the anti-Israel foreign policy that threatens our most important ally in the Middle East. I am opposed to this "remaking" of America that Obama is determined to impose on all of us. I stand against this idea that we need to be a socialist nanny state that has no room for God or freedom but plenty of room for an ever-expanding bureaucracy of government that should tell us where to live, what to eat, what to drink, where to work, what we can earn and what we should think.
Last week, President Obama told his supporters that the best revenge is voting. Revenge for what? Revenge against whom? Why does one group of citizens need to plan revenge against another group who disagrees with them politically? The revenge comments ties in nicely to comments made by White House advisor Valerie Jarrett last week that when the election is over it will be "payback" time for everyone who has opposed this Administration politically. Of all of the un-American rhetoric that has eminated from the Obama camp over the past four years, these final threats against political opposition have to be a first from our political leaders. The whole idea of voting for revenge is repugnant; it is the language of an angry, vengeful Administration that has nothing new to offer us and has therefore resorted to bullying and threatening the citizenry.
I will not vote for revenge tomorrow; I do not want revenge. I want to see freedom expanded, I want to see harmful, abusive regulations turned back, I want to see jobs added, I want to see greater opportunities made available for all Americans. I want to see the ranks of those on government assistance shrinking as those people who are currently receiving government assistance experience the self-respect that comes only from self-reliance. I want to see our Bill of Rights defended for all Americans. I want to see freedom of religion defended so that no one is forced by the government to violate his or her conscience. I cling to God and guns and Freedom, but I do not do so bitterly as President Obama once derisively commented. Rather, I cling hopefully to the values and freedoms that founded and built the greatest and most prosperous nation on earth. Tomorrow I am voting for the Constitution and the rule of law--for the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. That's why tomorrow, I am voting for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, and I am praying that across this country tens of millions of other Americans will do the same. Tomorrow is our decision day; it is our chance to take a stand for God and country.
Alexandra Swann is the author of No Regrets: How Homeschooling Earned me a Master's Degree At Age Sixteen and several other books. Her novel, The Planner, about an out of control, environmentally-driven federal government, is available on Kindle and in paperback. For more information, visit her website at http://www.frontier2000.net.
