I’m thinking back to when I switched sides.  Having been a life long Republican, first voting for Goldwater, I trusted the Repubs up through the 2000 election.

At the time, I thought that Gore had too much of the deer-in-the-headlights look…and we were coming off of 8 years of the Clintons.  I’d seen enough.  And “compassionate conservative, blah, blah, blah” kept me on that side.  Then came the attacks on us and the war in Afg. I was still with them.

But the leap into Iraq was too much.  Plenty of people were advising that we would be poking a stick into a relatively quiet hornet’s nest.  Sure enough, all hell broke  loose and now we don’t know what to do with it.  And, yes, my personal beliefs are that war need not be the only way to solve differences, in fact should be the last possible choice.

So leaping forward to now, I’m faced with the possibility of having to vote for another Clinton, or having Obama. Give me Obama any day, and as quickly as possible.  As a country, do we really need either a Bush or a Clinton in the white house for 36 years?  I don’t think so.

Yes, we need change and we need hope.  Not fear. And it would be fine if Gore were to step in and take the nomination in a deadlocked convention.