2004 Soap Box Archives

Voting 10/22/04

Due to my touring schedule and my probable long distance proximity to my local polling place many times I vote an absentee ballot which I did a couple of weeks ago.

I don’t think that there are very many people who don’t believe that this election is going to be tight and I urge you to vote for the candidate of your choice. Your one vote could be crucial in this election.

Speaking of candidates, I am often accused of being an automatic vote for certain ones, which is nowhere near the truth, but thought by some people nevertheless.

So I am going to state my reasons for voting for the candidate I voted for without mentioning the name of either one.

I voted for the candidate whom I feel is best qualified to protect this country from terrorism, who will go fourth in the defense
of America and Americans regardless of what some of our so-called allies or the United Nations may think.

I voted for the candidate whom I feel will vigorously protect the five thousand year old institution of marriage being only between one man and one woman, constitutional amendment notwithstanding.

I voted for the candidate whom I feel has the most regard for the sanctity of unborn life. I do not believe that abortion is guaranteed anywhere in The Constitution. I voted for the one who signed the bill against partial birth abortion.

I voted for the candidate whom I feel will appoint judges who will pass down decisions most closely aligned with my beliefs and deep convictions. Judges who will not take it upon themselves to change laws favored by the vast majority of the citizens in this country and become the last word on the social course this country will take in the future.

I voted for the candidate whom I feel has the right philosophy on the economy. I feel that I do a better job of spending my money than the government does and being a small businessman who pays taxes on a personal scale I know that the money the government takes from me in extra taxes is money which could be passed along to my employees in the form of salaries and bonuses.

I voted for the candidate whom I feel has religious convictions close to the ones that I hold sacred.

I voted for the candidate whom I feel will be the best friend to Israel. America is the only true friend Israel has and there are
wonderful promises and dire warnings in the Holy Bible
concerning the children of Abraham. America’s future could well hang by our treatment of tiny Israel.

“He who blesses you I will bless and He who curses you I will curse.”
And if you don’t believe that take it up with God. He is the one who said it.

I’ve stated my main feelings for the way that I vote and I’m sure that some of you feel the same way and some of you feel totally different. But however you feel and whomever you want to be President, please cast a vote for somebody.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels