So... 75% feel just like me

I was just reading about a recent poll that 75% of Amercians feel Congress is out of touch with average Amercians. I hate debating politics but I'm frustrated so I'm gonna do it.

For once it's nice to know that I am not the only person feeling incredibly p*ssed off about what has happened in government pretty much since I was old enough to vote. I feel like there is absolutely nobody worth voting for that has a prayer of winning. Anyone who wins is bound to do something stupid and not in the nation's interest, and all of us will go watch movies like "Man of the Year" and agree with everything Robin Williams says, and then vote the same turkey's into office again. Tough not to do when all you have is a field of turkeys to choose from.

I am a Christian, an ordained minister, and a Republican. I voted for Bush twice. I can honestly say I'm so sick of the whole lot of them in DC that I feel they have failed me, failed the country, and failed God. They have twisted everything I grew up believing was right in America... we are now the bad guys, we condone torture and find ways to say it's legal, we wire-tap fellow Americans in blatant violation of our national laws, and we hold US citizens for years on end without access to legal counsel on trumped up charges as "enemy combatants".

It all makes me very much ashamed to be an American. I don't know who I'll vote for in November, or even if I'll bother. If I can find myself feeling this way then the Republican party is screwed because I am part of their "conservative base". I don't even know what the Republican Party stands for anymore, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.