I usually vote for Republicans because of their overall philosophy of individualism compared to the statism of the Democrats. America was founded on the principle that the rights of the individual supersede that of the state. (Republicans are termed conservatives because they want to maintain individualism.) The Democrats have increasing turned toward the statist European collectivist model that has the individual subservient to the state, a system they proclaim a desire to emulate. The Democrats have several core initiatives that I do not support. It is unambiguous that the Democrat leadership supports these things, though many people who think of themselves as Democrats may not personally support all of these initiatives. Here is what the Democratic Party wants to do that I do not support.

1) Re-institution of the mis-named broadcasting "fairness doctrine." The Democrats want to put conservative talk radio off of the air. (When the fairness doctrine was implented there were very few outlets in each market so the doctrine made sense. Now there are literally hundreds of outlets in each market so there is no compelling reason for the fairness doctrine.)

2) Pass the mis-named "Employee Free Choice" Act. This eliminates the secret ballot in unionization elections.

3) Amend the Constitution to allow a person to be elected President more than twice. (They envision this as making Obama President for Life.)

4) Amend the Constitution to eliminate the Electoral College. (This would make it very difficult for a Republican to be elected President with the current demographics of the country. Actually, the influx of Hispanics into the country will make it impossible for the current Republican Party to win a Presidential election within a few years anyway.)

5) Change the law to force states to recognize "gay marriages" performed in other states. This effectively would make "gay marriage" the law of the land.

6) Ensure that abortion on demand is not restricted, and provide government funding for abortion. (I think that life begins at conception, and that the Mother's rights do not supersede the baby's rights.)

7) Appoint judges who legislate from the bench by finding new "rights" in the Constitution that no one previously saw, and who apply foreign judicial decisions as precedent in the United States.

8) Interpret the Constitution to limit or eliminate the private ownership of guns.

9) support affirmative action programs, including outright quota systems.

(They may decide that 3) and 4)are not worth wasting time on since it would take approval from the legislatures of 38 states Amend the Constitution, and they may decide that it is too hard to do within 3or 4years.)

Democrats have some policy proposals this year that I do not support. Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, and other prominent Democrats have expressed the desire to do the following that I do not agree with. There are many Democrats who do not agree with all of these positions, which reflect the views of the now dominant liberal wing of the Democratic Party.

1) Have Obama meet without any pre-conditions with the leaders of nations that are hostile to us.

2) End US support of Israel. (Obama has backed off some on this one as a practical matter to maintain the Jewish vote. However, his advisers clearly have antipathy toward Israel, and Samantha Power Sunstein, who worked as a foreign policy advisor to Obama for two years, has advocated the UN occupying Israel, and turning it over to Muslims. In addition, his chief advisor, a woman named Jarrett, is an Iranian, but I don't know her position on Israel.)

3) Reinstitute the FDR New Deal. (This was basically a fascist system according to many scholars, much of which was rejected by the Supreme Court. The current Supreme Court may well not intervene.) Included in this is a Congressional Black Caucus plan to simply give the houses to people who bought houses they couldn't afford.

4) Implement a single payer Healthcare System, basically socialized medicine.

5) Implement an educational plan that puts all children in a pre-K program. Presumably the instruction would include indoctrinating children on the evils of America and capitalism, and the need for revolution, similar to what William Ayers tried to implement in Chicago.

6) Attack freedom of speech with "hate crime" laws, and eventually "thought crime" laws similar to what are being implemented in Canada and in the EU.

7) Surrender sovereignty of the US to the UN, including paying taxes to the UN. (Obama has already introduced legislation in the Senate to allow the UN to tax the US. It had no chance with Bush as President, but Democrats with a super majority in Congress and the White House will pass it early in the Obama Administration.)

8) Withdraw militarily from Iraq without stabilizing it.

9) End the United States Anti-ballistic missile program. Do not follow the lead of Russia and China in developing space based military systems. Phase out nuclear weapons from the US arsenal.

10) Redistribute wealth in America by taxing some people with the express purpose of distributing the money collected with the tax to other people.