Left or right, no difference.They're all fuckups. 

We could run through the list of conservative principles I'm not in line with and the list would probably be equal to liberal principles I find repugnant and I'd been in the middle somewhere.

Bush is gone now and he fucked up too. Bigtime, but I also just cant buy the bullshit Obama is pushing about fair share when we've all heard how the top 5% pay over 50% of all income taxes while approx. 51% pay nothing, and even get refunds. Sure close loopholes that fat cats use to stack their piles and take corporate money out of the electoral process but to me vilifying the rich just because they have it and implying that they are all the same greedy fucks is absurd. I'm not for a dog eat dog society either as I understand taxes are necessary for schools,roads.military etc.

The fact remains that if the govt were to tax the rich at 100% they'd still only have enough money to run the gov't for something like 6 months. We have (or had) the greatest economy ever and our politicians, not the rich drove it off the cliff. The problem is that they have a spending problem. I haze zero problem with Obama care (well mandating that citizens MUST purchase anything is a problem)and social security,medicare etc but the govt has repeatedly shown that that can't be trusted with our tax dollars and now like crackheads scrounging about the floor looking for dropped rocks, these money addicted politicians are now scraping for crumbs. They dont need more, they need to spend within their means like citizens must. 
 
Thats my opinion at least. We all have dreams. Can others see ours as we see them, or even see them at all? No. So it is with politics in that its impossible to make someone see it the way you do.Thats OK.

Hope all is well with the health though.