Why I vote Democrat.

I was on Facebook talking to a friend who is voting for Romney though not entirely happy.
She is voting more against Obama than for her party.
I think that's been the rule of thumb for a lot of conservative voters. They don't like liberalism but their party has been high-jacked by extremism.
Romney would have done much better to run with the views he had as the Governor of a blue state.
I lived there and we kind of got used to a Republican Governor in the land of Kennedy after Bill Weld. BTW, I'm not totally high on Obama either but will vote for him. I thought he could have been a great progressive one term president with sweeping changes.  I also think his reaching across the aisle drove the right further right to get away. Obama had a literal hand in creating the silliness that is Teabaggery.
My friend is a conservative Christian and is angered that her Christian friends are against Romney because he  is a Mormon. She likened this to the anti Catholic sentiment when Kennedy ran.
This got me thinking.
Kennedy was a privileged son of an ambitious man too. But that base was all about what FDR (Considered a traitor to his class) created. As I say, I lived in New England and benefited personally from the old money liberals who thought money was to be used for education, medicine, the arts, and social welfare.
My son had the best medicine, education, and is now getting a full scholarship to become a jazz musician. This literally wouldn't have happened in most other parts of the country.
 Mitt is from a world I saw out there too.
When I drove limousine for hedge fund managers and had a regular visits between investment companies, banks, Harvard Business school , and airfields to awaiting private jets.
The real interest there was maximizing money.
I overheard many discussions about labor as an expense that could be cut.
To them it was a line on a ledger sheet. To me, it was a community of Americans who just wanted to work. That's why I vote Democratic.
I'm not saying there is anything wrong with extreme wealth, I just don't think it benefits the average American to have that mentality making policy and law.