Introduction

If you’re coming here from The Commish’s Desk, this will be the political arm of that blog, amputated and placed here for convenience and distinction. And so I don’t bore the poker bloggerati with my political rants.

My name is Todd. I am 41 years old. Married almost 15 years, two kids, minivan, pickup, mortgage. I live in the frighteningly liberal Bay Area in the only city in Alameda County to have more registered Republicans than Democrats: Pleasanton. I’m a training specialist for a large bio-tech firm. I’ve worked in high tech for most of my career, marketing and/or training for the last 17 years.

Why is any of this germane? Why should you care? Because I’m a Republican. In California. Who doesn’t believe in God. Who is Pro-choice. And who is sick of the liberal gasbags in the media presenting the GOP as “God, gays, and guns” when those are the exact three issues where I diverge from the party lines. I think I am part of a growing section of the population that are social moderates, international isolationists, and fiscal conservatives. I think that this section is the plurality of voters in this country, and is ignored by the mainstream left-wing media since the media trumpets the left-wing, demonizes the right-wing, and ignores those of us in the middle.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by just this once. If you don’t come back, I won’t take it personally.