I’ll say a few more words about me, so one can where I’m coming from. I’ve worked for forty years for women’s rights, especially with regard to choice, given financial support to a broad spectrum of women’s rights organizations and candidates, made personal sacrifices to help the cause and stood up for the movement when others were silent.

I’ve listen to Sen.Obama say that he’ll nominate people like Justice Roberts to the Supreme Court, because nominees like Justice Roberts are less divisive and can garner more support across the aisle in Congress. How could I support Sen. Obama over Sen. Clinton, when the Supreme Court makeup is everything to the issue of choice and women’s rights?

Hillary would have been elected President in November, if not for Sen. Obama. He could easily have been the successor to Hillary in the Oval Office, had he waited and gained more experience. Instead we fell into some kind of mystical adornment by the press (and others) of Sen. Obama and then we allowed the press and left-wing blogs to execute the most blatant destruction of any candidate I’ve ever seen, when they went after Hillary.

So, how will I vote in November? I plan to draw the line in the sand right here, right now – no more exploitation of women by the press, by Sen. Obama, by anyone. The best Democrats can hope for is that I don’t vote, but if I do it will be for Sen. McCain.

I think that an organization has the freedom to choose, provided that the choice represents the voice of the members of the organization and that the choice is congruent and consistent with the principles of the organization. In NARAL’s case, I wondered if membership was consulted? The timing of NARAL’s decision was certainly cause for strife. I personally posted a note to their blog that I was horrified by their choice to endorse Senator Obama in the face of the fact that he is a relative newcomer to the choice scene while Senator Clinton had long been a supporter of choice. In my mind, EMILY’s List and NOW made better choices in choosing to support Senator Clinton. While a woman’s organization can choose to endorse a male candidate over a female candidate, it behooves the woman’s organization to think very, very carefully about doing so before it takes this action. It seems self-evident to me, if the woman is as qualified or better qualified for the endorsement of the woman’s organization, it would better serve the woman’s organization to endorse the woman.

There was a time when there was no way I would have considered voting for Hillary. My intuition has always told me that she is not to be trusted. I know she has done a great deal for women but it seemed inauthentic and more self serving. This is a gut feeling I have had about her ever since I learned who she was and I cannot tell you exactly how it started. It think it goes back to her somewhat rigid persona and the fact that the whole time she was in the Whitehouse, it seemed like she would rather have been president herself. It was as if she was always vying for position. Don’t get me started on Bill. Compared to Bush, he was a knight in shining armor but I still vote for the person behind the position and he made a lot of arrogant errors in judgment that I can’t forget.

In recent months I have become much more of a Hillary fan. She has redeemed herself in my eyes in a big way. If she does not capture the democratic nomination, I know she will go on to do amazing things for women. She can run again in four years. This year, I am voting for McCain. To me, McCain is the safest bet overall which is the reason I am voting for him. The economy is going to turn around. Our enormous deficit and our position as a superpower in the world is the responsibility of our president, but the fact that we live in a country that is highly materialistic with rampant consumerism is not the fault of our president.

Rather than putting all the pressure on our president to fill all our needs, we need to look at our own behavior, how we can make a difference and who we are voting in as governors, senators, representatives and the like.