Election Night

Senator McCain,

Historic or not, I just wanted to write you a personal note. I'm sorry you lost tonight, but please don't think I voted for you. I didn't. I respect you for being a veteran, a maverick, and a bull trapped in a goats' pen.

In a nutshell, you lost me first with that immigration bullshit. I don't deserve having non-paying illegals get a free ride after I've worked my ass off. But I still didn't consider that a "deal breaker".

There are other things that distanced me from you, but the major loss of my vote for you after Hillary got ousted was your choice of a nut job for vice president. I, a liberal libertarian, was all set to vote for you(!) until you picked Palin. Your advisors probably convinced you that since she and Hillary both had boobs that you would get the disaffected woman's vote, right? Are you kidding me? Why did you assume that we women would vote for a woman on either party's ticket after the one we liked lost? Did you really think we're that ridiculously uneducated and desperate? That's like me saying that I would just substitute one veteran for another because he's a veteran too. Or that I'd vote for one black guy because the one I liked, who was ousted, was also black.

Well, your advisors were WAY wrong!

You chose a woman who believes that abortion shouldn't be allowed even in cases of rape or incest. That's just sick whether you believe in abortion or not.

You chose an isolationist who has left this country one time in her entire life. I'd be more impressed if she had at least left once every year for the last 20 years to wear a thong for a few weeks on the beaches of Greece, Rio, Jamaica, and France and later claimed that as "international experience".

You chose a woman who has no problems prostituting her children for political clout. Wow. Youngsters and teenagers do so well being put in the spotlight during nasty election campaigns, especially when one of them is adjusting to personal, biological, and emotional changes without the help of any spotlights. (Just for clarity, I would love to see how all those political commentators would have treated that teenager and her boyfriend if she had been a Democrat's child! Funny how nice, forgiving, and even defensive the right-wing pundits were of a Republican's child. Some of those same conservative pundits got downright mean about a pre-adolescent Chelsea Clinton's looks, not even her actions!)

Anyway, Senator McCain, you definitively lost my vote when you picked that nut (Palin for those who can't read). I'm not a big Obama fan either. I don't think he has near enough experience, and he consistently fails to outline his "changes", whether they be about his plans for the war and our soldiers, U.S. healthcare, U.S. and world economics, global warming, foreign policy, etc. Honestly, I'm sorry we didn't see a great campaign between you and Hillary.

Conservatives can complain that "Bill would've run the country behind the scenes" all they want, but I don't know any spouses who are close who don't talk to each other. Do you really think no American president with a living spouse didn't talk to or listen to her during his presidency? Even those not close to their wives had brothers, uncles, friends, advisors, drinking buddies, nieces, or whatever that probably had their ear from time to time. At least Bill DID have experience for Hillary to listen to, fight about, argue with, or contemplate. Oh well.

Senator, I wish you, Obama, and your families well. More importantly, I wish our country and the world well. I hope all of you, winners and losers, remember that part. After all, We are the United States, and You are here for Us. Oh, and the World is watching.