This writer seems to be a little closer to the center than Eve Ensler. I'm more comfortable with that position.

I enjoyed reading his viewpoint. Actually, his viewpoint pretty closely mirrors my own. I've said here before that I have voted for the Republican candidate in 11 of the last 12 presidential elections. I was enthusiastic when John McCain made the comeback to become the GOP candidate.

But one single paragraph in this writer's essay describes exactly what happened to me--how I changed my mind...

John McCain has changed. He said..."We came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us." This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget "by the end of my first term." Who, really, believes that? Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?

That's why I'll be voting for Obama, because John McCain is a "candidate of change". Except in his case, he changed from someone I could comfortably--even enthusiastically--vote for to the person described in this essay.