Mittens and other political thoughts

Oh Mittens. You bowed out already? I'm so surprised. I found your "I'm suspending my campaign" speech highly offense, but what's new. According to Harold Meyerson you were approaching the Platonic ideal of inauthenticity, to which I both heartily agreed and laughed. I can't wait to see how much more the GOP will disintegrate.

Something has happened to me recently. I started to feel again about politics. For so long I was angry and then I was numb. Suddenly I'm not numb anymore. I'm listening to NPR in the morning and actually hearing and caring. I feel excited again. I'm still undecided, unlike a couple of friends. It turns out that my vote in March might mean something.

This may seem a little whatever to you, because who hasn't been discouraged since 2000? But to me this change of heart is huge. I was raised discussing politics and my Grandmother, my hero and favorite person, was a CSPAN junkie and it was because of her that I studied political science as an undergrad. This deadening over the past couple of years has saddened me on another level, because of this connection to my Grandmother. I'm sorry she's missing this election cycle, because she would have enjoyed it. I'm excited to vote again, and that she would love.

Comments

[blue girl]

I totally understand, Claire. Who *wouldn't* have become numb over the last several years? It's been a heartbreaking time in this country and it seemed that no matter how many people knew how bad things were getting, it just simply didn't matter.

I'm with you! I woke up Wed totally psyched because of Tues. And I'm really excited about voting on Mar 4!

[Ginny]

Hurray!