All You Really Have to Do Here is Not Fug Up.

John McCain,

I heard part of your speech on NPR today, and even though my entire political paradigm revolves around "The West Wing" I have always maintained that you are a stand up sort of guy. Maybe even a little Alan Alda-esque, and he wasn't so bad as the middle-of-the-road Republican.

When I was in Philadelphia and they called Texas for Hillary, for one little moment I thought "I am voting for McCain." But I didn't say anything. And then my pal turned to me and said "I am voting for McCain" and I was like I KNOW, RIGHT? (And then my boyfriend yelled at me.)

So today when you said:

"There must be no forgotten places in America, whether they have been ignored for long years by the sins of indifference and injustice, or have been left behind as the world grew smaller and more economically interdependent. In America, we have always believed that if the day was a disappointment, we would win tomorrow. That's what John Lewis believed when he marched across this bridge. That's what he still believes; what he still fights to achieve: a better country than the one he inherited."

I was totally on that bridge with you. Well, your speechwriter.

And then you said:

"Hope in America is not based in delusion, but in the faith that everything is possible in America. The time for pandering and false promises is over. It is time for action. It is time for change; the right kind of change; change that trusts in the strength of free people and free markets; change that doesn't return to policies that empower government to make our choices for us, but that works to ensure we have choices to make for ourselves. "

And then came the walk of shame back to the shore.

It's not that I don't like you; I just can't vote for a Republican. Any Republican, apparantly. Even if it appears that I agree with you on education; even if you and that Democrat I don't want to vote for keep calling my man "delusional."

P.S. Thanks for the shout-out.