This is a re-post of an earlier iReport that I uploaded back during the aftermath of the 2008 presidential election.  There was a lot of bad blood and hard feelings from things we the iReport community expressed during the campaigns.  This place had become a madhouse and a boxing ring.  For those of you who weren't around at the time, you might want to bone up on how it was by reading this post first.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-237040

It was one of my favorites to write.  Anyway I am starting to get that feeling again and those of you who have been here for a while know exactly what I'm talking about.  This iReport.com place has become so sticky sweet and friendly that it's sickening.  I haven't had a decent fight in months, my last was with JackDeath and we battled for a couple of days I think.  I long for the good ol' days... thankfully election time is coming up again.  Put your gloves back on iReporters and get ready to tussle.

Love at First  Site

Have you ever  fallen in love with that special one and just knew that the two of you were a perfect fit.  Well that's how it was for us. We started off slow.  I didn't want to just rush things and move in on her too fast and ruin everything.   Soon we were spending a lot of time together.  I would go to see her and we would be together for hours and hours.  It was a match made in heaven.

All of that changed when her mother started sticking her big nose into our relationship.  For the first two months she let us be us. But something happened and all of a sudden mom decided that she was going to impose her will on us.  I found myself spending less and less time with my love and next thing we weren't spending much time at all.

I sort of want to blame her mother for the strained relations.  It was her mother who introduced us.  She told me,  "I have this beauty that you will absolutely love." She asked me all the time if I'd like to meet her.  I knew her mother in a professional way and her mom is quite influential.  i resisted the match making at first.  I never really was one for blind dates and pre-arranged relationships but I happened to see her daughter for a brief moment and from that point on I couldn't take my eyes off her.

It has been six months now that we have been together and I don't know whether I will stay or whether I will leave.  Living together under her mother's roof can be a problem but she won't leave her mother and I can't make her.  The problem is that her mother's influence is making it so that the freedom we share is much more limited than it ever was.  But I still really dig her.  Her name is iReport and her mother is CNN. 

Enjoy the 2012 election cycle everyone!