Why Should We Have to Settle?

I love this time of year.  That's not true.  I hate it.  It is the time of year when everyone is a political expert and tells me who I should vote for and why I should vote for them.  You’re a Republican? You must be against minorities and in favor of the rich.  Oh you’re a Democrat? You Godless heathen.  I happen to be neither.  I am apolitical.  I believe in my ability to govern myself and that is about all at this point.  Give me a good candidate and I will stand in line to vote for them.  Just don’t expect me to fall for this steaming pile of bull crap about if you don’t vote you can’t complain.  That’s not true.  I can complain as loudly as anyone.  I can complain about the lack of a palatable option for President.  I can complain that neither of the candidates that the parties are trying to force feed me have what it takes to run a gas station let alone our country.  What political experience did Barack Obama have that told millions of Americans he was ready to run our country? What experience does Romney have now? Is your life truly better now because of what Obama has done in office? Does it have more meaning? Do you have more money? What has he really done in four years that tells you he’s earned another four? Is Romney going to drastically make your life any better? Are you going to be happier in four years if he wins? And before you answer that question please do not vomit at me what Fox News, CNN, MSNBC,  or Hollywood has told you to tell me because I don’t care about that.  Don’t give me some statistics you heard thrown around at the Democratic or Republican National Conventions.  Give it to me from your perspective.  How are you any better off now or how will you be better off then? I want someone in office who is interested in pushing the American agenda not their own.  I want someone who spends less time attacking their opponents and more time telling me why they are best for the country.  I want a candidate that is more interested in raising millions for charity than for their own political gain.  Normally I side with Thomas Jefferson and say the “The government that governs least governs best”, but right now I feel more like Henry David Thoreau.  “Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe, that Government is best which governs not at all…”.  This is supposed to be a Government which is “For the People” and “By the People”, but I don’t think any of the candidates we have the great displeasure of choosing from every four years are truly those that “We the People” would really have in mind for ourselves.