[TheRealThing]

I don't claim to be a republican, I am a republican. I disagree with about 90-95% of Obama's ideas and values. Being a military guy myself, I know that his decision on DADT was a good thing. All the guys I serve with supported it.

Otherwise, you don't see me defending Obama. I'm not rallying around obamacare, his tax plan, his regulations, his hatred of the rich, his assault on the Catholic church, his failed foreign policy, his deficit spending, his liberal justices, his cabinet members, etc.

Its a single issue that I happen to believe in. Do you support Mitt Romney on everything? or did you support Ronald Reagan on everything?

And the post about Reagan being more liberal than most would realize, you are dead on.

Reagan was a hardcore New Dealer. FDR was his political ideal. He was president of a union, and let it to a strike. He raised taxes every year from 82-87, on business, individuals, gas, and social security (including the largest increase ever at that point.). He supported and expanded the EITC. He was a huge deficit spender. Raising the debt from less than a trillion to almost 3 trillion. He supported the UN. Went back and forth on ERA. As governor of California he supported and signed the most liberal abortion law in the country. He grew the size of government by 61,000. (Clinton's term saw a drop in 300,000).

But through all of that. He's still my hero.

His steadfast leadership saw the fall of the USSR. And the rebuilding of a great Superpower --- economically and through military might. When he took office, we had been faced with stagflation. Interest rates, inflation, and unemployment hovering at or near double digits. Yet by the end of his first term, all three were under control. Obama has shown us his inability to do the same.

Romney can and will do better.

You know, I think you guys have gotten your cart up in front of your horse about the DADT deal. All you're really saying is that you chose not to deal with your gay buddies any differently than your straight buddies. You were able to look past the gay soldier's fault and see the good in him. You were on the same team, risking your life for the sake of your country. It's pretty natural to believe one would have respect for the one who fights with honor beside you, gay or not.

Not judging his soul and not feeling like you're better than him describes most of the folks I have known during my lifetime. All the bru-ha-ha over the so-called gay rights issue was never a fight or a concept to be fought by man, or judged by man. Folks who find themselves at odds with God's law have an issue with God, not other men who agree with God. It can never be solved, even if every court in the US signs on. Man cannot circumvent God's Word and expect the results to be good. Is that such a difficult concept? You can accept that God spoke the universe into existence, formed man out of the clay and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils but you doubt He had the wherewithal spiritually, or the power to get his Holy Word written correctly?