Good Morning, Bucco and BTK & Co.,

I don't know if you have ever read anything I write, and I will spare you a leaflet drop -- for now. But in case you do not know me, I think I had better preface this with a couple of things:

1. I am not in hate with John McCain. But I am angry over this VP thing. I have always been a moderate Republican woman. I must confess though that I have been accused of being a closet Democrat from time to time.

2. My gripe with Sarah Palin is that far right, same old, same old stuff that has been a distraction from real issues for years. And those far right issues have blown so much smoke, for so long, redirecting focus from the things that really need to be addressed, that I truly have begun to fear that our great nation may be on the verge of a hamstringing.

3. I am not an elitist. Never have been. Never will be. In fact, I am sitting here right now listening to my favorite country music station while I type this stuff. And I admit to loving that music. (But I digress. Someday maybe we can talk about country music in another thread. I really want to do that.)

But anyway, I just want to say this:

Those of you who are such big fans of Sarah Palin are doing her a great disservice by not recognizing how the girl needs to be workin' it. She keeps going after the votes she already has. There is a big duh factor in that on the part of her advisors.

In fact, I find her vernacular speech and her head cheerleader rah, rah to actually be a condescention on her part. There is something that rings completely condescending -- on her part. Irony, huh.

On this board, there are a lot of women who were on the cusp of the women's movement. We learned to play the game. And we laid the semi-victory in the lap of the generation of women who followed us.

We were the navigators. And one of the things we learned well, if we wanted to "overstep" those boundaries, was to act like the job we wanted to have. That is what Sarah Palin is not doing. And why her advisors do not have sense enough to show her how that is done, I do not know.

So even though I am not a fan of Sarah Palin, I know that many of you are. And I really want to let you know that she is not playing to win. And why nobody knows that, I do not know. Probably she has no women advisors who are of an age to know.

Sarah Palin already has the votes she is going after and going after and going after. What Sarah Palin needs is me.

Boomer