Partisan Politics

It is something I find difficult.

I cannot ever put myself behind one party and agree with everything they stand for. I find myself left-leaning on some issues, right-leaning on others, and straight down the middle on many of the rest.

For example, I'm pro-choice, pro-gun.

Why?

What business is it of the state what a woman does with her own body?
Why shouldn't a sane individual be allowed to possess a firearm for the purpose of defending themselves?

One supposedly left-wing stance, one right wing.

Also I feel that partisan politics ensures that many politicians spend far too much time and engery negatively slinging mud at the other guy instead of getting on with the business of running the country, or if in opposition, formulating alternative policies for those that are plainly not working for the current administration.