Elections are becoming more like holidays every day.  They seem to start them earlier and earlier.  I've been asked numerous times who I will be voting for.  I have to tell them that I do not have a candidate yet.  They look at me funny because they know that I am a conservative and am pretty much a partisan voter.  Unless something drastic happens, this election season will be quite different for me.  I have what I feel are serious issues with the current candidates running for the republican nomination.  I am one of a few who still believe character counts.  I believed it counted during the Clinton debacle and I believe that it counts now.

Mitt Romney is the most conservative of the top three, but I have no intentions of electing someone to office from what is a cult parading as a mainstream Christian religion.  That's really the crux of the matter with him.  Some will say it is religious bigotry, well, I'm not a pluralist.  I believe that there is only one way to go to heaven, which is through Jesus.  Mormons do not believe this. (What does Mormonism teach?)

John McCain is a spatula.  One day he is a conservative the next he is a social liberal.  Based on interviews that I have read I do not believe that he is strong on pro-life.  I know that he like the other big 3 do not believe in creation, but rather subscribe to the lie of evolution.  He does not have enough staying power or integrity to win my vote.

Giuliani is a mess.  He has had multiple marriages and has even publicly humiliated one wife.  His own son won't even support him.  If you cannot manage your home life, what makes you think that you can manage the most powerful country in the world?  He is extremely liberal and supports abortion rights.  I will not vote for this man and I cannot imagine any thoughtful, biblically minded Christian voting for him.

Don't get me wrong.  I do not believe that we should be living in a theocracy.  I want the president to be grounded in biblical values, but the bible does not command our government to be run by the Levitical and Sabbatical laws laid down in the Old Testament.  The people of the Old Testament rejected God as their king and he gave them what they wanted, a human one.  Jesus did not come as a political savior.  He came as a personal one.  Although we may not be ruled governmentally by the bible, we should, however; be able to draw our moral direction from it.  It makes clear statements about what is right and wrong.  Even though it does not speak about foreign affairs directly, we can still draw direction from its teaching.

If the choices froze as they are right now, I would vote on everything on the ballot in 2008 and stay my vote for president.  I cannot, with a clear conscience, presently vote for any of the candidates.  If I expect character of others, then I should expect nothing less of myself...or you.