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[Moi]

Moi is Caving In.

Obama is getting my Hold The Nose vote. I’m sure he won’t care if I’m holding my nose or not. And it’s not because I drank the Kool Aid - I just feel the gun at my head.

Many people I know are mad at me. Oh, well, they will have more stress than I will. Lambert at Corrente says I can still be a PUMA anyway, lol. YES, I know how much vile BS Obama spewed during the primary. The media treatment was just as abhorrent to me as it was to them. I used to really like Olbermann; now I can’t stand the sight of him. The sexism has really sunk in, and the men did it to themselves. In the end, however, there are more reasons Not to vote Republican than Not to vote Democrat, or not to vote at all. And no, I won’t include the SCOTUS or Roe v. Wade, because I think they should not be part of it, either.

If you are a Dem, and vote for McCain, then maybe I could say You have fallen for the Republican Kool Aid. It has always made me wonder, the people who started this movement, are they really Republicans in stealth, who have set out to do this ON PURPOSE to split up the Democratic Party? And not just for PUMA itself, but for a lot of the bloggers that banded together early with PUMA? If that’s true, then the Republicans have succeeded. So far. Meaning we ALL drank the Kool Aid.

Someone said, or I read somewhere, that PUMA reminds them of Jews for Jesus. You know, the ones who convert Jews into Christians? Now, there’s also Jews for Judaism, which is a group that combats Christian Missionaries that wish to convert Jews by stealth. Thinking of “Jews for Jesus” as being PUMA, and then “Jews” as “Hillary Democrats”, and the “Christians” as “Republicans.” The point of PUMA is to convert Hillary Democrats into Republicans, by having these stealth Republican missionaries pretending to be Democrats. We’re not really that dumb, are we? Maybe we are....menopause does weird things...I know from experience....!

I know that the Democratic Party doesn’t seem to represent me any more. But these women that find Palin appealing can NOT be anything other than Republican at heart. She is not “of the people” - I don’t know any “people” who pay themselves $16K to work from home.... McCain is incontinent incompetent and a warmonger, but Palin is the scary one. Outside of the Religious Right connection, Sarah Palin is a liar, she is a cheat, she is like Teflon - all these lawsuits, all this crap going on all around her, and everyone is ignoring it except the left bloggers. Oh, and on the RR tip, God wanted the pipeline built. Please, spare Moi...

The DNC should be busting heads, and getting the Dem voters back. But they aren’t. True to form, they are limp. So much for Dean’s leadership. I think it’s a reason for some of the female Hillary supporters not to want to vote for Obama....they just don’t realize that’s what’s doing it. Even tho Joe’s got his share of testosterone, there’s more coming from the other side..... ;)

No, after the convention, it finally sunk in that the Hillary supporters who are not voting this election, or who are voting McCain, are really fighting a battle that no one can win. Movements begun from hate don’t change things for the better. It may wreck the Democratic party, but it will not change the system or the DNC; the Republicans will just reign forever as a result. Which, of course, is what they want. Two wrongs don’t make a right. And I do not intend to stop criticizing BO if it’s warranted.

The PUMAs think that not voting for Obama will enable Hillary to run in 2012, or that it will serve the DNC right. Several have told me they want revenge. They are using fuzzy math. If Obama does not get in this election, after four more years of Republican Rule, they really think that she stands a chance to win in 2012. Um, I don’t think Obama voters will be inclined toward voting for Hillary in 2012, and they will then be getting their revenge against YOU. And who’s to stop Obama from running again?

No, the only way to real change is to educate. Did anyone ever teach you that knowledge is power? Women need to KNOW, and those of us that DO know need to be organizing to teach them, and to do it NOW. Daughters by the droves voted for Obama in primaries over a woman. WHY? We need to start grassroots organizations specifically targeted toward women, girls & politics. There are plenty of foundations that give money for this stuff. So there's no excuse, and we can only blame ourselves if it happens again.

We need to make sure that an election like this NEVER happens again, that women who run for office are NEVER treated as shamefully again. But not voting Obama into office (or voting McCain in) isn’t the way to that goal.