I’m not concerned with the abortion or gay rights stand of any particular Rep or Senate candidate. I’m a lot more concerned with how they stand on things like card-check, the takeover of the health care industry, the integrity of the voting process, national security, taxation, and the hundreds of billions of dollars that we are bleeding (into the pockets of connected faceless crooks).

But abortion and gay rights are all I hear about in the press regarding this NY race. Hey, I wanted to vote for Giuliani in 2008, and I don’t think he’s against abortion or gay rights. But I never got the chance, since the backroom party elders thought it wiser to get McCain on the ticket. That worked out real well.

The fact is Republicans in NY are NOT generally up in arms about gays and abortion. But they are very angry about the toilet in which the economy is starting to spin around, and the big $$$ sweetheart deals that are being made at the expense of our future. And they are extremely concerned about the big smiles on the faces of our foreign enemies, the apparent negligence of our mission and troops in Afghanistan, and the abandonment of our allies (Eastern Europe and Central America being perfect examples.)

The GOP is blind to this, and is only interested in getting “R’s” on the roster, never mind what those Rs vote for.

If that means a smaller tent for the GOP, I would imagine people who don’t like the GOP would be happy about it. But look what the Democratic Party did to Joe Lieberman when he disagreed with them on a single issue. They kicked him out. And the voters of Connecticut in response kicked out the Democratic Party.

I would be happier if we didn’t have party affiliations at all. Then people might actually have to debate the issues before them.