Why I am no longer a Republican?

I am sick of the Republican parties double standards.

When the Health Care Bill was being debated and voted on, you heard Republicans saying that it was un-Constitutional, which I believe it is un-Constitutional.

When the case of Proposition 8 was ruled on by Judge Vaughn Walker they come out against the Constitution. Judge Walker found that Proposition 8 did not meet the Due Process Clause of the US Constitution.

Taken from Wikipedia.com:
"The Due Process Clause prohibits state and local governments from depriving people (individual and corporate) of life, liberty, or property without certain steps being taken. This clause has been used to make most of the Bill of Rights applicable to the states, as well as to recognize substantive rights and procedural rights."

Seeing that Proposition 8 would deprive homosexuals the same rights granted to a heterosexual married couple it does violate the due process clause in my opinion.

My Republican friends use the argument that no Judge should have the right to over-turn what the voters wanted.

Judge Walker was first nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1987. He did not pass confirmation from Congress based on him representing the US Olympic Committee in a suit against a group wanting to use the name "Gay Olympics." Representive Nancy Pelosi was among those whom opposed Judge Walker to be confirmation.
In 1989 he was again nominated to become a Federal Judge by then President George H.W. Bush. He was confirmed by unanimous consent, and was made a Federal Judge.


One must now look at the role of a Judge. A Judge's job it to make sure that law is applied. Judge Walker is being bashed by Republicans for doing his job, making sure that the law is applied to everything.


My problem with this whole argument is that a lot of Republicans are forgetting that Judge Walker was nominated by two Republican Presidents, he was confirmed as proscribed by the Constitution to do a job, but now is being criticized for doing such. We as Citizens of The United States can not pick and choose when we want the Constitution to apply.

One argument I have heard that the voters spoke, and Judge Walker simply tossed out their vote. Yes, Judge Walker tossed out their vote. I have this argument for those whom say that: If a State voted on to in-act Slavery again by a 50.1% margin should it be challenged in Federal Court? Yes it should. The Constitution prohibits slavery, just as it guarantees Due Process.

Republicans need to get back to the basics, but since the Republican Party seems to just want to pick and choose when the Constitution applies I will call myself a Libertarian, and I will use my vote to speak for my beliefs in the Constitution.

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughn_R._Walker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Redneck

I am proud to be from Redneck blood lines. Some think the term Redneck is a demeaning term, it isn't to me. Some use the term to belittle someone, but when they do they are only belittling the men who fought, and stood up for what they believed to be right.
The term first came around in 1921 in West Virginia. During the early 1900's Coal Companies owned everything, whole towns, stores, even printed their own money. Living conditions were horrid. Miners began organizing, and the Coal Companies began hiring Private Detectives, and also Local Law Men to keep the Miners from Organizing.
The Miners finally determined rallied in Charleston West Virginia and began a long march to Logan County West Virginia to the final stop at Blair Mountain Along the way Miners to identify each other tied red bandannas around their necks which is where the term redneck comes from.

The Battle of Blair Mountain is an interesting part of sometimes forgotten U.S. History.

My Grand Father on my Father's side was a Redneck, and I am proud of it.

Info on this time in U.S. History can be found at the links below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matewan_Massacre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

http://www.wvculture.org/history/minewars.html

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/coal-mine.htm