I don't typically talk about politics on my blog, or in real life for that matter.  I purposely avoided writing a whole lot about the election because I feel like it is really no one else's business how I choose to vote, and I don't really care about who anyone else picked either.  I'm not one of those wild fanatics that'll try to convince you that my candidate is the best, and calls you a moron for disagreeing.  I may THINK you're a moron, but I don't usually resort to calling people that to their face.

Ahhh, I digress...  Since I only have about 4 faithful readers left, you will have to just bear with me and feel free to skip this entry if you rather not feel your blood boil....

I voted for John McCain.  Now, I TOTALLY don't agree with him on all of the issues, and I think Sarah Palin was a piss-poor choice as VP, but my vote was fueled by his stance on the issues that are most important to me.  I had to vote with where my morals lie and his views lined up the closest to the points that are close to my heart. 

Of major concern to me, and what made my decision a no-brainer, is that Obama's stance on education states that everyone should be entitled to equal opportunity in education.  He is against vouchers, and although his own children go to one of the most expensive and "best" private schools in the country, he wants regulations on education so that no one child has better opportunities than anyone else.  That severely effects homeschoolers!

So, on top of the fact that we have a Democrat heading to the White House, we also brilliantly elected a heavily Democratic Senate and Congress last night.  This can only spell trouble for us homeschoolers!  Democrats = No choice in education. 

How long will it be until our new government officials come up with more regulations for us homeschoolers, more laws?  Will they be able to come in to check up on us at anytime, they deem necessary and interfere in our lives in ways that threaten our status as parents?  Will we be forced to choose between going to jail or losing our children or complying with these new, stricter laws?  What if these law makers decide that since homeschoolers have too much of an unfair advantage over common public schoolers, that homeschooling should be illegal altogether?  We all watched in horror at what happened in California.  What if that threat becomes nation wide?

I am no political expert, but I can read between the lines with the best of them.  When Barak Obama says that he wants an equal education plan for all children, what he is saying is that no one will be able to be the best or receive the best.  It doesn't matter how poor our nation's education facilities become, as long as everyone is subjected to them.  Heaven help us!

As a friend of mine so aptly stated recently, if the Democratic party wants me to keep my nose out of my neighbor's uterus and bedroom, what gives them the right to interfere at the goings-on at my kitchen table?  I see scary times ahead for us homeschoolers in the next few years. 

For all of you out there that helped to vote this man in to his new position, I hope the "change" that he brings about in YOUR home is worth it!