I guess Why....

Why am I a Moderate? Actually for the longest time I was not aware that I was one!

I thought I was a Republican, 100% all the way. And for the most part I am actually still 100% Republican, as I like to look at it , others have changed.

Since when did the Republican Party switch to being the social saviors of the world?

From the beginning for me I was raised as a Republican, the values of the Republican party were instilled in me.  Wasn't the party founded on Fiscal Issues - regarding smaller government, lower taxes, etc.

I am seeing a major swing to the far right insane get in your face crazy! Its making the party look like a bunch of chickens running around with their heads cut off,  fish flopping on the bank! Do "they" not realize how they are making this GRAND OLE PARTY look?! Holy Hell people wake up, look in the mirror. The State of Kansas is the worst - leaving me again once ashamed.

As I see it, here in Kansas, their are 4 parties, yep that right I said 4!

We have the Democrats, yep from what I have seem one United democrat party (if they are cutting each other off at the knees, I have not seen or read it)

Then their is the 3 Part Republican Party
1 - The Moderate, Rinos, Traditionalist.... (I have heard them all)
2 - Conservatives
3 - Tea Party, Ultra Conservative

Wow - We Rock, in the small state of Kansas, we have managed to take the party and split it 3 ways.  I have never seen a group of adults (yes I say adults because you have to be 18 to vote) be so off the charts ruthless.

I am going to say this bluntly and in my opinion from what I witnessed, the Conservatives completely blasted every non believer of their ways during the primary, to further prove my point, even if the moderate lost the primary seat - some of those conservatives, could not and would not let it go.

After the Primary, I was deeply ashamed and disappointed in how they were still reacting, mud slinging   and just flat out being Bullies!!!

So I have come to the conclusion of why I am a PROUD moderate, I am a moderate because I will always stand for the Republican fiscal ways but I am also proud enough to let people live their way and have their beliefs, do I understand some of them? No, but its not for me to.