I Need A Candidate!

Michelle Bachmann asked attendees at a speech she gave to sing happy birthday to Elvis. Not only was it not his birthday, it was the anniversary of his death.  Mitt Romney wants to make $10,000.00 bets when the rest of the country can’t even imagine having an extra $10,000.00 lying around with which to make frivolous bets. Newt Gingrich is becoming scarier by the minute. Ron Paul’s family needs to take him in hand and protect him from himself. I’m not even going to talk about the others. Really.

I need a candidate. I am a democrat and a feminist to boot, albeit a conservative-leaning one. Politically, there are literally millions like me in this country. We all need a candidate. Fast. With idealistic high hopes and visions of a healing time for our country, I voted for Obama. Granted, he inherited a colossal mess. But I am so disappointed. I am seeing the direct opposite of his campaign promises. He was going to be the candidate who worked for everybody – regardless of their political party.  He seems to be stubbornly sticking to a party line while claiming that he will compromise – if everybody else agrees to do it his way. It’s just not working.

Our political system is broken. Is it Obama’s fault? No, not entirely. The Republicans seem to have decided (also stubbornly) that no matter what the subject matter, they want the opposite of the Democrats. Period. It’s like a grade-school playground war.  But the consequences for our country go far beyond a three-day suspension from school. Our country is broken. Everyone is looking for someone else to blame. But the fact remains that we are broken; financially, emotionally, spiritually broken. We lack the proactive, positive leadership that brought our country out of similar situations in years past. We need a leader who can re-ignite the patriotism that has been such a bulwark of American life. I really thought Obama could do it.  I was wrong.

I believe that our constitution and our budget are moral documents and that our Senators and Representatives seem to have lost either their understanding of their responsibility to those moral documents or their morals altogether. I need a candidate. I need a morally upright person who gets social justice.  One who understands our moral responsibility to those less fortunate. Ideally, I think I need a faith-filled business person who has experience in the real world with real people and understands our country’s moral responsibility to support the small business owners and entrepreneurs who are the backbone of our economy rather than pandering to big corporations. I know I’m asking for a lot, but please, God, send us a candidate.  We are so lost.

I’m open to suggestions for a solution.  Just hurry up.