We had a lot of fun yesterday our Precinct 377 get out the vote party. Precinct Chair Joan McMillan did a great job organizing the event and getting candidates to come out. The kiddos seemed to enjoy it too:

Today the real fun begins – we get to rush to the polls to hopefully end the four year nightmare known as the Obama administration. Call your friends, enemies, neighbors, relatives, call ANYONE that is registered to vote and remind them that they can help turn this country around. If you can, volunteer at one of the Victory 2012 phone banks or find a candidate to help. Every vote is needed and every vote counts. Click here for a list of early voting locations – remember, you can vote at ANY location during early voting but if you wait until election day, you MUST vote at the location specified for your precinct. Here are the hours for early voting:

• October 22 – October 26: 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (first week, Monday – Friday)
• October 27: 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. (Saturday)
• October 28: 1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (Sunday)
• October 29 – November 2: 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. (second week, Monday – Friday)

Why vote straight R? The easiest reason is that under Republican leadership, Texas’ economy has led the nation. Think very hard before you choose to dismiss that one. It doesn’t matter what level a race is, don’t you want to be part of a winning team?

Besides which, you are kidding yourself if you are one of those people that say you research every candidate and make the best possible choice. Utter nonsense. Few people have the time to do that and even those that do have the time find themselves limited to information that others have collected, put their spin on, then presented it as “objective”. Obviously, there may be times when you need to cross over and vote for a single candidate of the other party because of corruption or incompetence or they are your relative or whatever but those few races are well publicized and/or well known. I’ve done that before and I’ll do it this year. But the single best thing to do to ensure that the candidates you vote for represent your overall views is to ask yourself which party you most identify with, given their platform and philosophy, and then vote that ticket. And for me, that choice is clear – Republicans on the whole are much closer to my individual political philosophy.

But, but, what about judges, you ask? They aren’t part of any team and party influence doesn’t matter in court. True and that is why it is even more critical for you to ask yourself – why would a person that wants to sit in judgement over people self-identify with a platform and party that doesn’t come close to my values? In my case, why on earth would I in a million years want to vote for a judge that runs under the banner of a party that supports bigger government, redistribution of wealth, non-traditional family values, thinks that law should be interpreted differently than intended, and calls for a free-for-all, no restriction abortion policy?

So do us all a favor and vote straight ticket Republican – as a side benefit, you’ll get in and out much quicker.

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