Thank you for your timely article.  I, too, voted for Bush and later regretted it.  I used to call myself a Christian Conservative, but have dropped the “conservative” and nowadays even struggle with the word “Christian” because of the connotation the so-called Christian Right has given us.  In my opinion, the Christian Right of today are more like Ayn Rand than Christ.

I was a born and raised Baptist and grew up believing that to be a Christian meant to be humble, and not to be too attached to material things, as we would be rewarded in Eternity.  Jesus led us by humble example and he told us to turn the other cheek, that if someone asked for your coat to also give them your cloak, and he said to lay down your worldly riches and follow him.  Today, the so-called Prosperity Doctrine that began infiltrating our mainstream Christian churches around 30 years ago, coupled with a renewed popularity of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” that began around the same time has brought on a new version of Christian Conservatives, which usually translates to “I’ve got mine, so to heck with you” and now not only is a selfish attitude okay, but justified and to some even considered godly.  One of my sweet Christian relatives lists as one of her favorite sites on Face book “Babies, Bibles and Guns” a simplified example of the current thought process of the Republican way of looking at life.  In my opinion, Christianity was hijacked by the Republican party, and what they espouse is the exact opposite of the Christ I was raised to believe in.  Fox News took the agenda even further with their biased reporting and brought about the Tea Party Movement, which I believe is the result of extreme brainwashing.  When I realized just how far this has gone was when I watched a Tea Party gathering and saw people with their canes, walker and wheelchairs calling to do away with all social programs, including the ones they are on.  These people will defend corporate tax loopholes while saying the so-called “freeloaders” is what have put us into debt.  Even if you tell them that the corporations that moved their factories overseas so that they could exploit foreigners with slave labor and very little pay, they will say that it was the greed of the American worker that drove them away.  They worship the rich and will never hold them accountable.  Now that the corporations are starting to see their profit margins slipping a little due to shipping costs and are talking about bringing some of the factories back home to a land of desperate unemployed people, they still don’t want to pay Americans a living wage and now want to abolish unions and minimum wage.  And guess what?  The brainwashed conservatives think this is just fine.

My change of heart led me to vote for President Obama in the last election, and I will vote for him again come November 2012.  In my opinion, the way President Obama is able to let all the hate and disrespect roll off his shoulders while trying to do good for people who will vote against their own best interest due to Faux News brainwashing and a hatred for the man, while at the same time trying to work with a congress that votes against everything he’s for whether they agree with it or not, is more of an example of Christ than any president I can recall in my own life history.  If President Obama loses the election, God help us all, as we will truly be a land of serfs to the One Percent.