Growing up in West Virginia is about as close to Heaven as you can get...at least to those who call her "HOME".  Next, is the love for God, Country, Family, and voting Democratic.  I did as expected, and registered at eighteen for the Democratic Party.  Thus, began my allegiance to my Country; to vote my conscience for the candidate who demonstrated the values I held dear. 
 
One day I awakened and had graduated from college, married, had a baby, and began following my military husband around the globe...and my eyes began to see what my heart didn't want to believe. 

My Party was no longer the Party of the "working man"...it was for giving a hand out instead of a hand up.  Instead of giving vouchers for tuition in college or trade schools and daycare, they give money for each child a person has on welfare...with no guarantee that any is spent on the children.  I pay for the nonworker.  I see people work eight hours plus, but cannot afford healthcare...but I see those easily receiving medical care with their medicaid card, while talking on their cell phone and watching cable TV.  I see generations growing up thinking this is normal, and make no attempt to change their lives.  I see a DEMOCTATIC PARTY placing a bandaid on every wound, instead of finding out why the injury occurred, and how to avoid it from happening again.  I see a Party embracing anything and everything to get a sector of people to "vote their way"....even if it goes against longstanding values and morals.  I see a PARTY preaching "TOLERANCE" to others, while LYNCHING their own, when they venture one step from Party ideology.  I see a Party bickering within because there is no clear map for the future.  I see a PARTY distancing itself from Christianity because of their allegiance to the ACLU, and all that entails,..and heaven forbid, be affiliated with THAT OTHER PARTY!  I see a PARTY willing to ignore and minimize the THREATS  to our nation, just to go against the President they detest.  I see a PARTY trying to hijack the PARTY I used to believe in with all my heart.

I  SEE A PARTY I NO LONGER RECOGNIZE!