I am a conservative Republican who enjoys social media. Since I work online, I tend to spend a lot of time with my Facebook page open. Not all of my Facebook “friends” share my political and moral ideology, and that is fine, because diversity makes the world go round. It was through one of these friends’ comments about the actions of many conservative Republicans that I started thinking about this blog post. This week, I want to talk about thinking before you post.

Look, we Republicans have an incumbent to unseat. I get that. And I am no fan of the Obama administration and some of the decisions our leader has made. With that said, we need to do what we can to shed light on his failures, point out the errors of his policies, and showcase the benefit of a change in administration.

This does not happen by pointlessly re-posting photoshopped images of our Commander in Chief in compromising, idiotic situations. One of my “favorite” images currently being passed around the world of social media is one of President and Mrs. Obama saluting the flag with the wrong hand. The image looks valid because the placement of the rings is accurate, but seriously people, this is simple to do in photo editing software. A simple search of Snopes clearly shows that.