I guess that IMO you have to look fairly at both sides and see which way you lean more comfortably. I list the standard "platform" of the democrats and there's a lot of it that I don't agree with. I'm MUCH more fiscally conservative. I'm also more socially conservative. Not so much about gays and freedom to do what you want in the bedroom, but more about welfare and federal aid here and abroad. I'm also not 100% on board with their education plans.
But then I list the things that are on the standard Republican platform and there are less that I can agree with. I can't stand the influence of the religious (not so very) right on the current administration and republicans in general. That drives me the most crazy. I'm also a live and let live kind of gal and they don't support that. They seem to want to regulate everything even though they scream about big government.
In my lifetime (born in 1967) my experience with Republicans is that they leave office with my life worse off each and every time. They all talk about lowering taxes, but I always end up paying more. They talk about smaller government, but always seem to create more debt and more agencies to tell me what I can and can't do. Not cool.
This year this supposed "War on Terror" (insert dramatic music here) bullshit has me crazy. We are sending our children over to the Middle East to be killed on a goosechase! We were lied to and taken to war on a big old pile of Texas bullshit. Not bad intelligence, blah blah blah.. isn't the world better off without Sadam, but a big pile of steaming stink. We went to war because Sadam wouldn't turn over his WMD's that didn't exist. He told us they didn't exist. He even (finally) let the UN come in and look for them, insisting they didn't exist. We invaded and blew tons of shit up and guess what... They don't exist!
Our world is a mess. People out there seriously hate us and we're not doing anything to nip that right away. That makes more and more people wish us harm. That's some scary stuff! I read or hear little blurbs about people who are pissed at us (like Pakistan, who have lots of nukes) but that doesn't make the news. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! I am the great and powerful Oz.. er Bushy.. er Mr. President.