Am I Angry Enough to be a Republican?

Yesterday I was driving from a court assignment in Phoenix and was listening to some conservative talk radio.  Now, a little background is necessary here.  I have been listening to talk radio for years.  In the beginning, I listened to the classics- Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.  I have moved over to Dennis Prager and Michael Medved.

At heart, I am a conservative person.  It matches my faith and my general sense of the world.  I was registered as a Republican until about two or three years ago, when I switched to Independent.

So while listening to a little Sean Hannity (he had a guest on I thought was interesting at first), I realized how loud he was.  I mean, he is such a loud talker.  And then I thought about Rush Limbaugh and even Glen Beck.  These are loud dudes too.  And angry.

I thought about all the angry facebook posts I read from angry Republican  and Tea Party people.  People push aside their Christian tenets and say despicable things about members of the other side. 

I realized that while I may be a conservative, I am not a Republican.  I'm just not angry enough.  I don't have the mindset that somehow my vote will matter more if I shout louder or say nastier things.  I realize that right now, there are more of them than there are of me and that if I want to see things change, I have to work with them and the people I vote for have to work with them.

I hope to see a leader like this come out of the woodwork.  I think Mitt Romney was that type of person.  He wasn't embraced by the Republican party because he wasn't angry enough.  He didn't spit far enough to reach the face of his opponent.  Spitting at his feet wasn't good enough.