VP Rant

I spent the majority of Friday in a car driving from Washington, DC, to New York, frustrated beyond belief. Not because it took us 6+ hours to drive up north when it usually takes us 4, but because I was stuck not being able to write this rant until now, and by now, you've probably already heard it all, but I'm going to write it anyways.

As a woman, I'm absolutely aghast at who McCain picked to be his vice presidential nominee. As a woman, I'm insulted beyond words that he truly believes that he could win the female vote simply because he chose someone who doesn't have a penis. Does he think that low of me and the millions of other women who voted for Hillary? Is it really true that the majority of women don't care about anything else? They don't care about the environment, gay rights, gun control, and oh, shall we not forget, women's issues? Does he really believe that women vote based on sex alone, when it's been shown that women vote based on party preference and most women are Democrats? There's a reason for that, and it's not because they're voting for other women.

The women McCain is obviously pandering to should be offended. And if they still had qualms about voting for Obama simply because of how the Democratic primary ended, this choice should override all of that. If the word of God came down from heaven and told me today that this would be the only chance in the next 100 years that a woman would be this close to the presidency, I still wouldn't vote for her.

It's that simple. I have a brain. And I use it. Like many other women. And it's quite obvious that besides for biology, Sarah Palin is a far cry from what Hillary Clinton represented to those who voted for her.