OMG-That's It! Why I Vote Republican

I've explained my voting methodology which has arisen since the Dems tried to steal Florida in 2000, partly by trying to disallow military votes.  (Yeah, some things never change.)

I was reading this article (Why I Now Vote Party, Not Individual) by Dennis Prager and he makes several good points (as usual), a couple of which made me say "OMG-That's  It!"

There is an American tradition of voting not for the party, but “for the man.” Unlike Europeans, who are more ideologically driven, Americans have prided themselves in assessing individuals of both parties, and then voting for the more personally impressive candidate. The European parliamentary system of government fosters ideological voting; the American political system does so to a much lesser degree. With only two parties competing in American elections, each party has had to encompass a much wider spectrum of ideologies.

This is no longer the case. For better or for worse, the notion of voting for the candidate rather than the party is now mostly naïve idealism. The Democratic party is now fully left-wing, and is simply the American version of a European social-democratic party. It is the party of ever-expanding government. (The Republican party, in contrast, is — at long last — the party of small government.) There are two reasons for one to vote Democratic: either one is a leftist, or one has come to believe the Left’s demonization of its opponents as SIXHIRB (Sexist, Intolerant, Xenophobic, Homophobic, Islamophobic, Racist, Bigoted).

Oh, yes, there is third reason that Americans vote Democratic: More and more Americans are employed by the government, and more and more Americans receive significant material benefits from it. So one does not have to have left-wing values or believe in the demonization of conservatives to vote Democratic. All one has to do is vote according to where one’s livelihood comes from.