For the first time since I turned 18, I am wondering if I will be at the polls this fall voting like a good citizen.  There are many important issues in our Presidential election, but perhaps none as near and dear to my heart as the illegal immigration catastophe we see daily in America.  So much to my dismay, I have sat by and watched the Republican candidates skirt the issue of dealing with illegal immigration at every debate.  My personal thought is that they are afraid to address the issue for fear of losing support from one side or another.  This leaves me in a quandry.  What I know of John McCain…well I won’t vote for him.  I would vote for Romney, but I believe that much of the press and the Republican Pary old school have decided he isn’t “one of them”. 

Immigration is a BIG issue with me.  Unlike the rich people who live in their mansions, have their kids in a private school and hire Imelda and Juan to clean their house and do their gardening, I am in the middle of the illegal immigration phenomena.  My kids go to public school.  I work in an industry where I “serve” illegal aliens on a daily basis knowingly.  I work hard for my $10.00 an hour in a job I have done for the past 21 years.  I watch people who make more money than me daily and don’t pay the taxes I pay, they don’t have the health care costs that my husband and I do.  They basically don’t live by the same rules as us, yet…they are committing a crime by the very fact that they are in the same community as me ILLEGALLY. 

Lets face it, illegal immigration is a KEY issue, if not the key issue of this next election.  The disgusting part is that the very party I stand by, I confess to, I support with money and my loyalty is now very publically backing a candidate that is, in my opinion, on the wrong side of that issue. 

So what do I do to be true to myself?  Lets say for the sake of argument that the candidates come this fall are Hillary Clinton and John McCain.  Someone tell me how I can, with a clear conscience actually vote for McCain KNOWING that he will let illegals across the border like rats into a sewer off fresh slop.  Will I be able to sit and not vote, knowing that the alternative means a woman in the White House whose very appearance makes me shrink in disgust and whose voice brings about feelings of loathing.

I promised my Mother that if Hillary were to make it to the White House again, I would be forced to not watch any news for at the very least, 4 years.  I am beginning to think that might be more of a possibility than I originally thought and worse yet, by not voting I could well help that along.