Bucco,

A couple of weeks ago, somewhere in all this heap of political posts, I wrote something about how I felt when John McCain picked her. I said that I felt like he had just slapped me right across the face. And I also said that I believed this to be just like an arranged marriage, arranged for the big, fat dowry.

In that post, I asked the question, "Where did that brave man go?" I honestly thought at the time that he had been bullied into it. That confused me. But now I have to wonder if he did it because he wanted to, in order to bring in that far right knee jerk reacting vote because he thought that would win it. And, Bucco, I cannot get this old Boomer head around either one of those explanations. But either way, my moderate Republican self was left out in the cold.

And in another post, very long ago, long before the pick, I wrote about how I hoped he would not cave to the far, far, off the charts, far right. C'mon, who were they going to vote for? Obama?

And call him a maverick all you want, but this one showed him differently. What was he thinking? I still do not know. But I do know that he was not thinking about me.

And I also know that I am truly a pretty nice lady. And I actually have begun to feel a little sorry for her. And I have to wonder how she really feels now.

But that does not make me any less angry at what John McCain did to me. He caved or pandered to the far, far right with this choice. And even though, I feel a little sorry for her, I know that I probably should not. But you know what else, I really am pretty weary of the pity party for her. So I think I will just go throw a pity party for myself because I honestly am completely lost on this one.

And don't you have to wonder if he were making his choice today if it would be different. Our world has changed a lot in the last week. Roe v. Wade should not even be getting air time.

Boomer