Ron Boehme used his time bashing gays and espousing the virtues of family and Christianity. Okay, so that's fine with me. I'm not at all a supporter of the gay lifestyle, I'm very pro-life, very family-oriented and I do have my spiritual beliefs - all the characteristic attributes of a good Republican. So what was it that turned me off of Ron Boehme?

Well, for one, he came across as a well-dressed prick, a Trojan Horse that looked sharp and neat on the outside but was, I feel, disingenuous on the inside and filled with bigotry and bitterness, one who considered himself so far above the majority of his constituents that I constantly felt he was looking down his nose at us. I thought he missed his mark in life - he probably would have made a fortune and sucked millions of dollars from blindly loyal religious nuts had he become a televangelist. His whole delivery smackled of an infomercial or, worse yet, a Bible-thumping crusade. Okay, Ron, we know you are against the gay lifestyle. So are the majority of us. Move on. But no, he had to keep coming back to it and blaming that for the demise of the family unit, the demise of Christianity, the crack that would someday split apart America. He went on and on about family and how the family unit is being destroyed by Democrats (and by gays). I kept thinking of my wonderful family and all the wonderful family units in my family and social circles and kept trying to connect the dots, but all the lines kept pointing to "pompous asshole."

Larry Seaquist, on the other hand, talked at length about social and fiscal conservatism. He had real ideas about how to shrink spending and how to bring common-sense to our local government. He didn't preach, nor did he stoop to Boehme's level to hurl personal insults. I was very impressed with what I heard, even coming from a Democrat.

Let's hope that he lives up to his words and that he serves us well. As for Ron Boehme, he might want to take my suggestion and get into televangelism. Or selling Amway. Or snake-oil. Because that's, figuratively speaking, all I heard from him during that 30 minute sermon of his. Kitsap County is better off without him.