There is no home for people like me

I watched Gov. Romney and Sen. Cantor as they embarked on their "listening tour" over the weekend and I can't help but to listen to President Obama (he is on every station, every day it seems) and I have come to a conclusion...

I don't belong.

There has to be hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people out there who feel like I do, how do we start to matter?

I've been called a spoiler when I voted for Bob Barr and Ross Perot, I've been called a right wing extremist when I participated in a Tea Party, but talking to my conservative friends and family I'm some sort of bleeding heart liberal.

I don't think a Big Tent party is going to cut it.

Where do you go when you take your religious beliefs out of the equation and determine that the government shouldn't be dictating who should get married or what a woman does with her body but you also don't think they should be thumbing their nose at the constitution and taxing us to death to steer us more to the "European model" of government?

Didn't we fight a revolution to steer away from the "European style" of government?

So where does that leave me and those like me? Moderate Republican? Blue Dog Democrat? Libertarian? Constitutionalist?

I couldn't bear to be lumped in with Pat Buchannan or Nancy Pelosi but I sure would like to belong to a party that could get things done in my lifetime. The Reform Party is fractured, the Libertarian Party can barely get on the ballot and it seems the one thing that gets bipartisian support in Washington and in the media is ridiculing any third party to make them look like jackasses and nut jobs.

I guess I am marginalized. I'm not a Silver Fox, Baby Boomer, Minority, or Gay. I'm not ultra rich or on public support, Evangelical or budding Socialist; so I guess I don't get catered to.

I'm just average Joe who gets to help pay for it all.

Where is our Obama? I guess our Superman is still looking for a phonebooth to change in.