It's almost time to take your stand as a citizen

You have a privilege and a responsibility if you are a citizen of this great country. The privilege is to vote for the leader of this nation; the responsibility is step into the voting booth as an informed citizen.

Tuesday is the day most of us will exercise that franchise.

I will be pulling the lever for Romney and Ryan, and I won't be holding my nose when I do it. It's not simply a vote against Obama and the socialist vision he represents. It's a vote for what Romney and Ryan represent.

Neither Romney nor Ryan represent the faith to which I suscribe, and Obama certainly does not. But Romney and Ryan will be civic (not religious) leaders, and their view and vision of how an economy works, their concern for the federal debt, their belief in individual responsibility, their belief in religious freedom, their belief in a small, non-intrusive federal government, their position on states rights, and American exceptionalism, and a host of other reasons have convinced me to vote, enthusiastically, for them.

It's not a vote for the Republican party. It's a vote for a conservative view of government, economy, and the social life of America. It's been some time since I considered myself a Republican, but I've always owned the label "conservative."

Get out and vote this Tuesday. May God bless, and preserve, America.